Before he began his laid-back pre-playoff press conference on Thursday, Kyle Lowry, the Raptors’ resident golf fanatic, glimpsed a major championship on the press-room TV and engaged in some obligatory Masters talk. After falling short of post-season expectations with DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry, the Raptors traded DeRozan to the Spurs. “Whoever wins,” Lowry said. Article Continued Below“I think he’s going into this knowing he’s got to play like an all-star player,” Nurse said. This season, Lowry put up his lowest Player Efficiency Rating (PER) since 2011 — a catch-all stat that illustrates his individual decline.

Source: thestar April 12, 2019 00:00 UTC