Josh Lewenberg: Scoreless half for Lowry. He’s scored 15 points over his last 14 quarters combined – fewer than his per game average in each of the last 5 seasons. He’s only taken 2 shots. Raptors trail Bucks by 2.
Kyle Lowry Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 03/25/86
Height: 6-0 / 1.83
Weight:175 lbs. / 79.4 kg.
Salary: $31,000,000
Born: 03/25/86
Height: 6-0 / 1.83
Weight:175 lbs. / 79.4 kg.
Salary: $31,000,000
“I’d love to stay in Toronto for the rest of my career,” he said. “Obviously Kyle [Lowry] can’t play forever so hopefully, we milk him for everything he’s got and then, once he’s done we’ll see what happens. I love being in Toronto and I don’t want to leave anytime soon.”
“It’s been like that with Kyle since I came here,” Ujiri said of their neutral but professional relationship. “We’ve never — we don’t have a confrontation. We don’t — I’ve never done anything wrong to him. It’s just this kind of decision-making that we have to go through. And I know how Kyle is, so honestly, I love him to death. “He plays basketball the right way. He gives it his all, you know. And I’m so used to it. And you know he has a good heart. And I know that I haven’t done anything wrong to him. I didn’t trade him.”
Lowry recently sat down with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols on The Jump and opened up about how he felt when he learned the trade news at 2:30 a.m. one night: “It was 2:30 in the morning, and I’m like, I get the phone, it’s DeMar. So I pick up and he’s like — he said some choice words that I’m not going to say on ESPN. But he’s like, ‘Yo, I just got traded to San Antonio. … “I’m sitting on my bathtub ’cause (there’s) a little ledge. I’m like, ‘What? You just — what? Hold on.’ And I sat there for a little bit. We just sat there, and you know, because at the same time, you’re like, man, you don’t know what to say.”
Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry hasn’t been president Masai Ujiri’s biggest fan since he traded his backcourt mate DeMar DeRozan to the San Antonio Spurs over the summer. ESPN’s Rachel Nichols asked the pressing question, one that Lowry’s icy response got the message across just fine. Nichols: How would you define your relationship with Masai Ujiri right now? Lowry: “He’s the president of basketball operations. That’s it. I come here and do my job.” Nichols: That answer leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Lowry: “He does his job, I do my job, right? That’s what you do.” Nichols: That’s where you stand? Lowry: “That’s where we stand.”
Nichols brought up how DeRozan was open about his feelings immediately after being traded and saying he felt betrayed by the organization. She asked if Lowry felt the same way. He said: “I felt betrayed because he felt betrayed because that’s my guy, that’s my best friend. So yeah, I felt some type of way on a personal side. It’s a harsh business. It’s a great business, but sometimes moves are made that you’re like, ‘Ugh, wow, that sucks.’”
Eric Koreen: I asked Lowry how his back was. “It’s great. I’m alive.” Funny, same way I woke up this morning. (This is not an official injury update.)
