Raptors’ Jonas Valanciunas expected to miss four more weeks

The Toronto Raptors are going to be without Jonas Valanciunas for at least another four weeks.

There had been some hope that the Raptors centre, who has been working on court before practices, would be able to be able to come back a little sooner but his return should come closer to the NBA all-star break, as was originally expected.

The team announced Wednesday that Valanciunas’s surgically repaired left thumb is now in a splint and “he will use the splint for approximately the next four weeks and will be regularly evaluated during that period.