The Miami Heat point guard Kyle Lowry is set to miss at least three games after picking up a knee injury. The 37-year-old player was missing from the Heat’s lineup during Saturday’s 115-123 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks after experiencing soreness in his left knee and is expected to be reevaluated by the team next week.
“I think this is just what you deal with in a long NBA season,” Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra said of Lowry’s injury on Tuesday. “There’s going to be unpredictable things. The encouraging thing about it is there doesn’t need to be a procedure or anything like that. We just need to calm it down and that’s where we are right now.”
Lowry is averaging 12.0 points and 5.3 assists on 39.6% shooting this season; all lower than last season, when the Heat was ranked number one going into the Eastern Conference playoffs. This is Lowry’s lowest-scoring season since the 2012-13 season, as well as the fewest assists that he has made since the 2009-10 season.
Currently, the Heat sits sixth in the Eastern Conference standings after going 29-25 on Saturday.
