Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry will miss Sunday’s Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Cavaliers due to a left ankle sprain, according to the team’s official Twitter account.
Lowry missed Game 3 of the series due to the troublesome ankle and admitted to NBA.com that trying to play through the injury may have made it worse. The 31-year-old received treatment on the ankle yesterday and today but it did not improve enough to play in today’s potentially series-ending game.
The Cavaliers have dominated the Raptors in the postseason, winning by double-digits in each of the semifinals’ first three contests. Lowry contributed a double-double (20 points, 11 assists) in Game 1 and another productive outing (20 points, five assists) in Game 2 before going down with the injury.
Injuries have been an issue for Lowry this season as he missed 18 games late in the year due to surgery on an ailing right wrist. All told, the Villanova University product set career-highs in PPG (22.4) and RPG (4.8) while adding solid totals in APG (7.0) through 60 games.
Lowry is set to hit free agency after the season and if the Cavaliers sweep the series — or the ankle injury prevents him from playing if the series continues — the longtime Raptors point guard may have played his last game with Toronto.
Sign with Indiana so George could stay
He going to be a Sixer soon!
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Lowery would look better on the pelicans with Davis and Cousins then Jrue would.
Lowry would make the Pelicans a number 1 seed