Kyle Terada/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
TORONTO — Kyle Lowry left the Raptors’ locker room late Thursday night wearing a contraption on his left hand that looked like an oven mitt. He is not 100 percent healthy at this late stage of the N.B.A. playoffs, and that does not make him unique among his peers. But he revealed this week that he cannot feel his left thumb during games.
The injury — a dislocation that he managed to aggravate at some point in the Raptors’ postseason run — affects his passing, but Lowry has learned to compensate.