TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors announced Tuesday afternoon that star guard Kyle Lowry underwent pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory injections in his back last week, and that he remains without a timetable for a return.
Lowry, who had already been ruled out of Tuesday night's game against the Utah Jazz, received the injections at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York in an effort to combat the lower back soreness that has plagued him for some time now.
The Jazz game will mark the eighth time in Toronto's last nine games that Lowry, who is averaging 14.