Dwyane Wade's shoulders have been bothering him for a while now. The good news is there's nothing structurally wrong with them.

With the Heat back home for a brief 48-hour stint before heading back out on the road for another five game stretch, Wade, 34, had an MRI performed Monday on his ailing shoulders and the results showed what's been bothering him is simply soreness.

"Sometimes you've just got to play through some discomfort," said Wade, who missed the Heat's win over the Nuggets last Friday but returned and scored a team-high 22 points in Sunday's blowout loss at Oklahoma City. "Then if it gets too sore or too bad like it did against Denver, then I take the game off. [I've] just [got to] play through the discomfort for the most part."

Wade said he's just relieved his knees are fine. He can deal with sore shoulders.

"It's a physical game we play. You do a lot of bumping. I do a lot of shot fakes. I do a lot of things," he said. "I've had different times where one of my shoulders has been sore. I just haven't had both of them at the same time. It's fine -- my legs work. That's all I really [care about]. I'd rather take sore shoulders over sore knees any day."

Like they were Sunday in Oklahoma City, the Heat (23-18) will once again be short at least four players when they take on the Bucks Tuesday night. Coach Erik Spoelstra said point guard Beno Udrih (neck), forward Josh McRoberts (knee), point guard Goran Dragic (strained left calf), and forward Chris Andersen (knee) will all be out.

Wade said he expects to play against the Bucks. Spoelstra said forward Jarnell Stokes, who was sick Sunday, went through Tuesday's shoot around and should play.

"At the end of the day this is a no excuse league," Wade said. "You've got to go out there and play the game. No one is going to simulate the game for you. No one is going to say 'Hold on, wait until Goran, Beno, Josh and Bird [come back].' No one is going to say that. At the end of the day you've always got enough. Coach always says that you've always got to believe you've got enough. Just got to do it a little bit different, substitute a little different. We've got to play a different too. But we've got enough to win a couple ballgames."