Kyle Lowry was on the bench with a sprained ankle yesterday while his team got punted out of the playoffs by LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers for a second consecutive season.
Lowry has confirmed that he will opt out of the final year of his contract with the Toronto Raptors, making him a free agent this summer.
"We understand it's never easy especially in a close-out game", said Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving, who scored 11 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter and added nine assists. Korver knocked down four of his six looks from three-point range, while Frye buried two of his three attempts from long distance.
Fair a belief as that may be, the core in this scenario consists of Carroll, DeRozan, Serge Ibaka, and Lowry-and we'll get to Valanciunas.
"(Irving) was able to make some big plays down the stretch", LeBron James said. "It's not just given to you, you have to go out and earn it". If the Celtics win, they would move on to host the Cleveland Cavaliers to open the Eastern Conference finals.
A year after all-star DeMar DeRozan, who was facing free agency, made his intentions about staying in Toronto crystal clear, Lowry had some fun verbally sparring with reporters, who asked several times about his intentions. "I'll take those numbers".
Lowry was absent in games three and four in the Eastern Conference semifinals series with the Cleveland Cavaliers due to an ankle injury, NBA.com reports.
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They had 10 fastbreak points in the first quarter, and routinely turned turnovers and missed layups into transition buckets. Boston can not allow the Wizards to push them around down low and get to those "50-50" balls. "We know what's at stake".
Another series sweep for LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, this time over the Toronto Raptors in the conference semifinals, sends the reigning National Basketball Association champs back to familiar territory.
Washington shot 52.4 percent from the field and outscored Boston 42-20 in the third quarter.
With James and the rest of his teammates burying opponents with a barrage of 3-pointers, Casey said it will take "a Herculean effort" to unseat the defending champs.
Ujiri might have to come to the realization that the current construction of the roster may not be good enough and they might not get over the hump by just adding a few role players. James is 3-4 in his trips to the championship series. Lowry was injured in the third quarter of Game 2. If he wants that in the form of a capable three-point shooter, he should reach out to JaMychael Green.
After fighting through a awful chest cold for the last few days, James Harden finally felt like himself on Sunday night. "I've said that three times already".
The Rockets did Rockets things in Sunday's 125-104 home win over the Spurs to tie the series at 2-2. Only thing I've thought about is opting out. "They went on runs". We can only try that so much, and it just hasn't worked. The next match of the lopsided series takes place in San Antonio on Tuesday night. This would be impressive, were it not for Golden State, who is sitting on an unheard of +15.1. Kerr, 51, first hurt his back during the 2015 NBA Finals, and subsequent surgeries and associated pain kept him sidelined for the first 43 games of last season.
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