Before leaving for Miami for the start of training camp, Kyle Lowry takes advantage of his summer between two international moving sessions. Yesterday, he appeared on CJ McCollum’s show where he gave himself without compromise on his life and his basketball career. The 2019 champion notably looked back on his years in Toronto and his relationship with the Canadian city. Raptors fans, get out the handkerchiefs, it’s time for the last goodbye.
Guest of Pull Up, the podcast of new players’ union president CJ McCollum, Kyle Lowry was questioned for over an hour by the Blazers back. Many topics were discussed and Calorie’s life was reviewed during her discussion with her counterpart. His childhood, his role as a father, his arrival in the NBA in Memphis (we sometimes forget it), if you have an hour, go listen to this very good podcast, you will learn a lot of beautiful things (link right here). And since we are nice, we will come back to part of the show, the one that is the most topical. With his departure from Toronto for Miami in a sign and trade, Kyle Lowry leaves a great void behind him. After nine years, an NBA title and more than 600 games for the Canadian franchise, the point guard will leave Toronto leaving the Raptors orphaned by their dad. But K-Lowry won’t forget. He recognized that the bond and feelings he created in Canada were special and that Toronto was now a place he called “home”. Sniff.
Kyle Lowry may have left Toronto, but make no mistakes about his feelings for the place he called home for 9 years… and still does. pic.twitter.com/TABE6OzZsp
— Raptors Nation (@RaptorsNationCP) September 2, 2021
“Toronto has grabbed my heart… it will always be my home. “
This is too much for Raptors fans. They have just lost their legend and the years to come promise to be complicated. Get the Kleenex boxes ready for February 3, 2021 when Dad is home. In fact, Toronto is a city that Kyle Lowry himself considers a “Top 5 city” in the NBA to get out and enjoy life off the field. It’s always easier to say that when you’ve been there for almost 10 years. Corn for good ol ‘Kyle, there’s something more to Toronto. Something that arguably appeared in the 2019 Finals, won by the Raptors. And he reminded CJ McCollum of it.
“Remember that this city is in a country, Canada. And we didn’t just win for Toronto, we won for Canada. A country of 40 million inhabitants, 4 million of whom were present at the parade! “
Come on now, it’s all our logging cousins’ turn to get the handkerchief out of their overalls for Kyle Lowry. At 35, the child from Philadelphia will leave the Raptors not in reconstruction, but ” just in a rejuvenation ” according to him. He will keep a unique image with a whole people and we would not be surprised if the latter returns it to him one day with a withdrawal of jersey for example. In short, Kyle Lowry gives us a dignified start with right and strong words, that’s really class.
As a certain film said, “a foreigner who comes to live in Ch’nord, he bawls twice, when he arrives and when he leaves”. It’s kind of the same feeling with Kyle Lowry in Toronto, where fans go to mourn a distinguished and respectable legend. It just goes to show that class costs nothing, but when you have it, it’s always better.
Source texte: Pull Up Podcast
