The Wolves will work out Mike Miller before tonight’s game at New Jersey and then decide if his sprained right ankle is healthy enough to play.

Miller stayed nearly an hour late after the team’s morning shootaround and shot three-pointer after three-pointer on his heavily taped ankle that he called still stiff or sore. He said, with nothing else to do all day in the swamplands around the Meadowlands arena, he just might stay at the Izod Center right up to game time.

Both Miller and Randy Wittman said the team’s training staff will make the decision. “If it was up to me, I’d be playing tonight,”  Miller said. “At the same time, I got to be smart. We’ve got 82 games. I’ve got to be ready for all those. If I come back tonight, tomorrow or Tuesday, it’s not going to be 100 percent, either. But they pay us to play basketball.”

Wittman said he will start Kevin Ollie again tonight in an attempt to contain Nets guard Devin Harris and Al Jefferson will again start at center. But Wittman said the rest of the frontcourt depends on whether Miller plays.

From watching Miller limp Friday morning and fight to get lift on his three-point shots, I’m guessing they wait and let him heal, possibly until Tuesday’s game against Utah at Target Center.

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