MIAMI — With Duncan Robinson poised to make his Kaseya Center return, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra joked at Friday’s practice that he might wait for the book or the movie.

Such is the profound impact Robinson’s story made on Spoelstra and the Heat before he was dealt to the Detroit Pistons in the offseason.

“It’ll be strange,” Spoelstra said, with the Heat hosting the Pistons on Saturday night in a matchup of leading teams in the Eastern Conference. “I catch a lot of their games and I’ve watched their highlights a lot. I still root for Duncan. He’s one of the great success stories from our building.

“I wrote him a note after the deal, and I’ve told him this before, but I really do think his story is so inspirational that eventually it can be a book, a movie.”

The Heat swapped Robinson to the Pistons for Simone Fontecchio in what basically came down to a salary-cap/luxury-tax move.

With the Heat holding a $20 million option for Robinson in June, otherwise required to pay Robinson a $10 million buyout for this season, the team arranged a sign-and-trade deal with the Pistons that allowed Robinson to realize a three-year, $48 million deal with Detroit, with the Heat lowering their payroll load by taking on the $8.3 million Fontecchio is due this season on the final year of his contract.

To Spoelstra, the Robinson story is about the journey, not the financial machinations, with Robinson thriving in the role in Detroit that he cultivated with the Heat.

“That just doesn’t happen, where you come from Division III, then transfer, be a sixth man (at Michigan), and then to come into the league and get to 1,000 threes as quickly as he did and break our record for threes, and then he’s going to continue to go.

“That’s just a credit to his fortitude and grit, just an amazing super power. So I do root for him, but it looks strange, him in that uniform, it really does.”

With the Heat largely having returned to overall health, fourth-year forward Nikola Jovic found himself as the odd man out of the rotation in Wednesday night’s victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, the first time he has been held out this season due to coach’s decision.

“It’s something that happens I guess every season now,” Jovic said of what has been an uneven Heat ride over the years. “I’ll be back. I’ll get back on the court again. I’ll get a chance. And I’ll show them that I can play again, and it comes around.”

Spoelstra wound up going with 10 others on Wednesday night.

“I think if I’m the 11th guy off the bench, I think we have a pretty good team,” Jovic said.

Not that he doesn’t want to play.

“It’s still difficult,” Jovic said. “I don’t want to be out. It gets a little confusing. The good thing I have examples like Duncan before, who could be a big piece and then not play at all, a lot of stuff like that. I’m just, I guess, chilling and waiting for the opportunity.”

Jovic could be back in the mix in short order, with forward Jaime Jaquez Jr. held out of Friday’s practice due to a strained right groin.

With the Heat otherwise healthy, the team now has first-round pick Kasparas Jakucionis and two-way players Vlad Goldin, Myron Gardner and Jahmir Young all in the G League, with the Sioux Falls Skyforce.

With the overwhelming majority of the roster healthy, Spoelstra had targeted Friday as his team’s first full practice of the season.

“It was good,” he said. “We had a very good film session and we were able to get up and down and work on some of the detail work. The most important thing right now, you know we’re learning how to win games, even if we don’t necessarily play well. I don’t think we’ve played well the last two games.”

While the Heat enter Saturday on a six-game winning streak, the play largely was uneven in victories over the Dallas Mavericks and Bucks.

“We didn’t really get to our identity enough, but you still figure out how to win the game,” Spoelstra said. “And that becomes a talent of a team and eventually becomes a habit. But we would like to play better. We know we’re capable of that, even as the competition has something to say about it. We just want to get more to our identity, more consistently.”