Nunn clears quarantine, but out for Heat vs. Thunder. And details on Haslem mini-documentary

Kendrick Nunn has officially rejoined the Miami Heat.

The Heat’s rookie guard left the NBA’s Disney bubble last week to tend to a personal matter and returned early Sunday morning to begin a four-day quarantine upon reentering the league’s Central Florida campus.

Nunn was cleared Wednesday afternoon to exit his hotel room after continuing to test negative for COVID-19, according to a league source, rejoining the team in advance of Wednesday night’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

But Nunn, 25, will not play against the Thunder because of a sore throat — not COVID-19 related as he continues to test negative for the virus. It marks the third consecutive game he has missed after exiting the bubble.

Nunn still has an opportunity to play in Miami’s eighth and final seeding game — Friday against the Indiana Pacers — to get on the court before Miami begins its first-round playoff series against the Pacers either Monday or Tuesday.

Coach Erik Spoelstra said the hope is that Nunn will be able to get in an on-court workout Thursday, “and then we’ll evaluate from there.”

Nunn, who was named as one of three finalists for the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award, played in each of the Heat’s first four seeding games before temporarily leaving the bubble. He has struggled to be efficient at Disney, averaging 7.8 points while shooting 32.4 percent from the field and 25 percent on threes in 20.9 minutes during that four-game stretch.

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For the season, Nunn has averaged 15.2 points while shooting 44.3 percent from the field and 35.6 percent on threes, 2.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 66 games (all starts).

In the first two seeding games Nunn missed, rookie Tyler Herro started in his place Saturday against the Phoenix Suns and Goran Dragic started in his place Monday against the Pacers.

A NEW HASLEM MINI-DOCUMENTARY

As veteran forward Udonis Haslem prepares for another trip to the playoffs in his 17th NBA season (all with the Heat), there’s a mini-documentary set to premier later this week on Haslem’s off-court impact titled “OG40.”

As part of the 32-minute film, Caron Butler spent a day with his former Heat teammate to witness Haslem’s widespread impact in his hometown of Miami. Butler and Haslem walked through Overtown, Liberty City and Wynwood, while also highlighting the opportunities Haslem has given others as a franchisee of a handful of Subway sandwich shops and partner of JFC Miami that operates, among other stores, a Starbucks at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s campus in Miami.

The mini-documentary was produced by CloseUp360, which Butler is a partner in.

“My loyalty is to this city,” Haslem said in the film. “I talk about my loyalty, you can say that to this city I’ve held it down from all aspects. From a business aspect, from a professional aspect, from a street aspect, from a family aspect, I’ve been loyal to this city on all cylinders.”

“OG40” premieres on Friday at 8 p.m. on PlayersTV, available on the Samsung TV Plus platform. It will then be a digital release later in August.

▪ The NBA announced Wednesday that 342 players were tested for COVID-19 at Disney since Aug. 5, and zero returned as confirmed positive tests. It marks the fourth consecutive week the league has announced zero positive player tests.

Two players tested positive upon arrival at Disney in early July, but they never cleared quarantine and left the bubble to isolate at home or in isolation housing.