The Toronto Raptors will be without centre Jonas Valanciunas as the team tries to take a stranglehold in their second-round playoff series tonight in Miami.
The Raptors face the Heat in Game 4 with a 2-1 series lead. Toronto will have to do without Valanciunas, who will miss the rest of the series with a sprained right ankle.
The big man suffered the injury in the third quarter of Saturday’s victory in Game 3. Valanciunas has averaged 15 points and 12.1 rebounds in these playoffs.
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The Heat may also have to play the rest of the series without centre Hassan Whiteside, who is listed as day-to-day with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee.
Valanciunas missed 22 games in the regular season with a broken hand but the team still managed to win 16 games during that span.