Zero chance that the Raptors don't start Lowry when he returns. Might give him one game off the bench to ease in a little, but even that would be surprising to me. And that's because of what happened in Houston, with Lowry and McHale/Dragic. He took it really personally that he was playing at an all-star level, he got injured, and wasn't the starter when he got back. Obviously the circumstances are a little different here, but I think you want to be sensitive to the history.
That said, I hope that he's learned a lot by watching Calderon's success these last few games. He needs to learn to trust his teammates defensively and figure out what he needs to do to help them succeed offensively.
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