The only other Heat player unavailable Sunday was Josh Richardson, who will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his right shoulder in early March.

Meanwhile, the Raptors were missing a chunk of their roster in the final game of their season. Toronto played without Scottie Barnes, RJ Barrett, Chris Boucher, D.J. Carton, Mouhamadou Gueye, Jakob Poeltl, Jontay Porter and Immanuel Quickley.

Unfortunately for the Heat, the regular-season finale included a new injury to a rotation player.

Heat backup center Kevin Love exited Sunday’s game with 22.8 seconds left in the first quarter and did not return because of a left upper arm contusion.

After Love left the game on Sunday, the Heat used Thomas Bryant as its backup center against the Raptors. Bryant closed the win with 18 points and 10 rebounds in 23 minutes off the bench.

Love has established himself as an important part of the Heat’s rotation this season, providing positive minutes when Adebayo heads to the bench. The Heat entered Sunday outscoring opponents by 6.6 points per 100 possessions with Love on the court this season.

But Love’s status for the postseason now is up in the air after Sunday’s injury. This comes after Love recently returned from a bruised right heel that forced him to miss 14 straight games.

“He got hit in the arm and it was like a stinger,” Spoelstra said of Love after Sunday’s win. “So we’ll see how he feels tomorrow.”

Jaquez closed his first NBA regular season on a high note.

After scoring 20 points and dishing out a career-high nine assists in Friday’s win over the Raptors, Jaquez recorded 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting from the field and 6-of-7 shooting from the foul line, four rebounds, five assists, one steal and two blocks in Sunday’s regular-season finale.

Those performances marked only the second and third time that Jaquez has finished with double-digit points in the last nine games.

“I just mentioned something to him in the locker room after the game that he looked like himself from earlier in the season,” Spoelstra said when asked about Jaquez following Sunday’s win. “He has his legs under him, he’s healthy. I think he has a clear mind, he has 70-plus games under his belt. He feels good, I think he has an idea of what his role is right now.”

Before this two game stretch, he averaged just 7.3 points and 2.1 assists per game while shooting 43.1 percent from the field and 29.4 percent shooting from three-point range in his previous 16 games.

The Heat’s playoff roster is set.

With Sunday representing the final day of the NBA regular season and the final day for NBA teams to make personnel moves ahead of the playoffs, the Heat did not make any changes.

The Heat will enter the playoffs with a 15-man roster of Adebayo, Bryant, Butler, Herro, Haywood Highsmith, Jaquez, Nikola Jovic, Love, Caleb Martin, Patty Mills, Richardson, Duncan Robinson, Orlando Robinson, Rozier and Delon Wright.

But Sunday marked the end of the season for Heat two-way contract players Jamal Cain, Cole Swider and Alondes Williams because two-way contract players are not eligible to take part in the playoffs. However, Cain, Swider and Williams are expected to remain around the Heat for the duration of its postseason run.

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