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- Updated: May 19, 2016
12:33 PM ET
CLEVELAND — Toronto Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas will miss Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday night with a sprained right ankle.
Valanciunas has been out since getting injured in Game 3 of Toronto’s second-round series with the Miami Heat, and general manager Masai Ujiri expressed uncertainty that his 7-footer would be able to return at all in the third round.
“I saw [Jonas] walking, so that was positive. He wasn’t sitting,” Ujiri said Wednesday. “I don’t know if we’ll be able to have him back. You wish a guy like that could be playing, because I feel that’s a difference — he’d be the best big guy in the game by far to me, so that would’ve helped us. But we don’t have that and that’s the nature of the NBA. You move on.”
Raptors GM Masai Ujiri wasn’t optimistic that Jonas Valanciunas would be able to …
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