As the playoffs are approaching, the Toronto Raptors have a record of 47-30 and sit at the third spot in the Eastern Conference. However, what makes their record even more impressive is they’ve found success while one of their best players has been sidelined with an injury.
In the Raptors 56th game of the season, All-Star point guard Kyle Lowry went down with a wrist injury that would keep him out until the playoffs. Lowry was averaging 22.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, 6.9 assists per game and was shooting a career high 41.7 percent from three.
Although the Raptors have come together as a team and shooting guard Demar DeRozan has upped his game to new levels, the Raptors still miss Lowry’s presence out on the floor. It’s something Toronto GM Masai Ujiri has noticed over the years and because of this will try to re-sign Lowry this Summer in free agency.
Following from Scott Stinson of The Toronto Sun.
“You have to remember that, everything that has happened to this team in the last few years, Kyle has been at the forefront of that,” he says. Will Ujiri try to bring him back in the offseason, when the 31-year-old becomes a free agent?
“No question,” he says. “Before the injury, you could argue he was one of the top five players in the league this season.”
With free agency slowly creeping up, Toronto GM Masai Ujiri seems to be making Kyle Lowry his number one priority heading into the Summer.
