MILWAUKEE—Kyle Lowry arrived at the arena here Wednesday with a funny looking blue oven mitt thing on his left hand and said he hadn’t really touched a basketball since Sunday, when he banged up his thumb in Game 7 against Philadelphia.
“It’s why we have shootaround,” he said. “Mind over matter on some things, and we’ll tape it up and get it ready to go.”
Seemed to work.
Lowry shrugged off any semblance of discomfort with his thumb or the time it cost him in the gym since the Sixers series ended and came up with a gem here in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference final.