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Kyle Lowry once had a run-in with a Toronto Raptors assistant coach, and it was because of peanuts. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical, Lowry had conditioning issues throughout the 2014-2015 season and it caused concerns with the team. Lowry recalls that contention started when he was confronted by an assistant coach about sneaking peanuts into practice. […]

Despite having found a second home in Toronto, point guard Kyle Lowry plans to opt out of his deal with the Raptors next summer, seeking a max deal that will take him into the end of his career. The 30-year old will pass on a $12 million option to stay with the team in order to […]

Stephen Curry is back at it again, and his fellow NBA players can’t believe how easily he can shoot the lights out from anywhere. Prior to the preseason game in Vancouver between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors, Kyle Lowry met with Curry at half-court for a brief speech to the fans in […]

Team president Masai Ujiri of the Toronto Raptors signed a multi-year extension last week. Ujiri will only hold the responsibility of team president now, and has promoted assistant general manager Jeff Weltman to General Manager, and the organization’s cap guru Bobby Webster to assistant general manager. Ujiri will oversee basketball operations, but this is all […]

Bismack Biyombo may no longer be a member of the Toronto Raptors, but that doesn’t mean he’s not still pals with former teammaers Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan. Sunday is Biyombo’s birthday and he turned the young age of 24 years old. However, Lowry and DeRozan feel like he’s the old man of their friendship […]

Fresh off the closing ceremonies in Rio, Team USA wasted no time in showing off their newly acquired hardware on social media. Paul George was especially eager to show his gold medal and with good reason. After overcoming the awful injury he suffered two years ago in an intrasquad scrimmage with Team USA, he’s come […]

Someone had to come out and say it. Team USA assistant coach Jim Boeheim didn’t shy away from it. While the focus of the team’s gold-medal success centers around perennial stars like Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and Kyrie Irving, often the unsung heroes don’t get enough credit. Kyle Lowry, the unsung hero “(Kyle Lowry) was […]

Team USA‘s performance at the Rio Olympics received plenty of mixed reviews. Regardless, the team, led by four-time Olympian Carmelo Anthony, got the job done once again. The United States left Brazil with an undefeated 8-0 record and a 96-66 win over Serbia to earn a third consecutive Olympic gold medal. So how well did […]

In a game that was blown open by halftime, Team USA dominated every facet of Sunday’s gold medal matchup against the Serbian National Team. With Team USA up 86-47 on Serbia with about six minutes left in the fourth quarter, Kyle Lowry pulled off one of the nastiest crossovers in these 2016 Olympics, sending his […]

Toronto Raptors star and Olympian DeMar DeRozan turned 27 years old Sunday, and celebrated his birthday with his Team USA teammates, even in a round of practice. To no surprise the person just as excited as DeRozan was teammate and friend Kyle Lowry who (always showing appreciation for his friendship), couldn’t contain himself. Lowry decided to take a minute […]

DeMar DeRozan re-signed with the Toronto Raptors in free agency this summer, continuing his career with the only organization he’s known. His teammate Kyle Lowry, who is also playing alongside DeRozan for Team USA, has taken to social media to demonstrate his appreciation for the pair’s bond. It’s likely that Lowry and his team may […]

If you thought Draymond Green‘s last Snapchat incident would stop him, think again. Green was back at it again on Thursday, reviewing and analyzing his own head and roasting his teammates’ hair texture and hairlines. According to Green, teammates Jimmy Butler and DeAndre Jordan‘s hairlines were considered extremely rough, while giving Kyle Lowry a ‘real rough’ […]

The exhibition game against Venezuela started slow with Team USA displaying cold shooting from the outside early. It went on to the second half and the result was a rather low scoring game for the Red, White, and Blue as they finished with only 80 points. The crowd was still sent to its feet a […]

Kevin Durant had a little too much confidence in his teammates on Tuesday, when Team USA hosted China in an exhibition game at Oracle Arena. Durant drove through the lane to draw the defense inside the paint, and  passed the ball off to a wide-open Kyle Lowry, for an uncontested three-pointer. Durant prematurely spread his arms to celebrate, […]

When DeMar DeRozan decided to re-sign for the Toronto Raptors on a lucrative new five-year deal, one of the first things he did was let his close friends and teammate Kyle Lowry know all about it. Two-time NBA All Star, Lowry was on a trip thousands of miles away from Toronto in Scotland, playing golf […]

Last Friday, we saw the new Team USA Men’s National Basketball team blow past Argentina with a 37-point beating, 111-74, in front of their home crowd in Las Vegas. Yes, even after winning by a very huge margin, head coach Mike Krzyzewski still had to nitpick on his team’s performance. As he told Steve Aschburner of NBA.com, there’s  “terminology […]

At first glance, the photo released by Nike looks as casual as other Team USA pictures in the past. It’s a picture that shows the current group of players to represent the country, donning the uniform and letting the world know, they are ready to defend their gold medal. Oh say can you see, America.We […]

DeMar DeRozan has come to terms with the Toronto Raptors on a five-year deal worth an estimated $139 million dollars. This is one of the largest deals in NBA history, and it caught teammate Kyle Lowry‘s attention. Lowry couldn’t wait to congratulate DeRozan on his new deal, which apparently made him hungry. Lowry posted his […]

Two-time All-Star DeMar DeRozan has decided not to test his value in free agency this year. After leading the Toronto Raptors to the Eastern Conference championship for the first time in team history, the 26 year old shooting guard is confident he is on the right team for his athleticism. “My mindset has always been Toronto,” commented […]

After mulling his decision over the past couple of weeks, Damian Lillard has decided to decline his invitation to play in the Olympic games in Rio, due to plantar faciitis. According to The Vertical’s Woj, that decision opened a spot for another invitation which went to the Raptors guard Kyle Lowry who gladly accepted and will […]

After falling in the first round in the previous two postseasons, the Toronto Raptors went on an impressive run this Spring, taking Game 7’s over both the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat in the first two rounds before pushing LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers to a sixth game in the Eastern Conference Finals. […]

This is not where Kyle Lowry wants to be. The All-Star point guard is out of the playoffs as he and the rest of the Toronto Raptors team were eliminated by the Cleveland Cavaliers last night in Toronto. Lowry had one of his best performances in these playoffs in Game 6. He scored 35 points […]

The Toronto Raptors have had the best season they’ve ever had. In a season that almost saw coach Dwane Casey’s job on the hot seat, and talks of star DeMar DeRozan possibly leaving in free agency, the Raptors were able to play beyond a level they ever have, and fight all the way to the […]

A lot has been said about Kyle Lowry throughout this Eastern Conference Finals series. Despite all the hate and media surrounding his decision to “decompress” and subpar play on the road, he has still led the Raptors to their first ever Eastern Conference Finals and, at one point, had LeBron James and the Cavaliers tied […]

After a pair of inspiring victories at home to even up their Eastern Conference Finals series with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Toronto Raptors fell flat on their faces in Game 5. By the time the dust settled, the Raptors had suffered a brutal 116-78 defeat. They’ll need to win Game 6 at home to keep […]

A few weeks ago Kyle Lowry was walking into the Air Canada Centre before Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals and completely snubbed a security guard of a fist bump. Lowry did not mean to miss the security guard’s welcoming gesture as he was talking to someone but Lowry left the man completely hanging. […]

The Toronto Raptors currently find themselves in a 2-0 hole. In what has clearly been a mismatch of a series, the Cleveland Cavaliers have defeated the Raptors by an average margin of 25.0 points during the first two games of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Cavaliers’ total margin of victory of 50 points through the […]

According to Dwane Casey, Kyle Lowry did not quit on his team in Game 2. For those that aren’t aware, Lowry left the Toronto Raptors‘ bench with a little over two minutes remaining in the first half of Game 2 versus the Cleveland Cavaliers. To a large portion of the audience, it represented Lowry “quitting” […]

Simply put, Kyle Lowry has been horrible in the Eastern Conference Finals. The All-Star point guard—who is considered the leader of the Toronto Raptors—has flopped big time in the ECF versus the Cleveland Cavaliers. He has converted on just 8-of-28 shots from the field (28.6 percent) and has been even worse from three-point range. Lowry […]

When Kyle Lowry left the bench for the locker room in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Cavaliers, he immediately brought speculation upon him. Why did he leave the his team in the middle of the game when he seemingly wasn’t injured? According to Raptors head coach Dwane Casey, it was just […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers earned their 10th victory in a row last night by blowing the Toronto Raptors out of their gym on Thursday night. There wasn’t much going for Toronto in the game, but there was a very questionable move by Kyle Lowry late in the 2nd quarter. As the Cavs started to create separation […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers rolled to another victory this postseason, their 10th in a row, by defeating the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night 108-89. As the Cavs started to create separation late in the second quarter with a 16-2 run, Raptors all-star point guard Kyle Lowry was nowhere to be found on the Raptors bench. RELATED: […]

Who said the Toronto Raptors were afraid of a Game 7? The team’s two stars, DeMar Derozan and Kyle Lowry, made it clear after Friday’s loss to the Miami Heat that they look forward to the final game in the series. Lowry had a loose demeanor as he looked toward Game 7’s tilt versus the […]

The Toronto Raptors have an opportunity to clinch a berth in the Eastern Conference Finals when they face the Miami Heat Friday night in South Beach. Team leader Kyle Lowry is prepared for a battle, and his ready to go the distance to get the job done. At Friday’s Raptors shoot around, Lowry spoke out […]

The final minutes of Game 4 were not kind to Kyle Lowry as he watched his team from the bench. The Toronto Raptors led the Miami Heat in the fourth quarter by fourth points, with about two minutes left, when Lowry picked up an offensive foul, his sixth of the game, and left the floor for good. Lowry […]

On Thursday night, the Toronto Raptors managed to squeak by the Miami Heat in overtime, 96-92, to even their second round series at one game apiece. Still, it wasn’t pretty. Kyle Lowry scored 18 points, but he was 7-for-22 from the field and 1-for-7 from three-point land. DeMar DeRozan went 9-for-24 and just 2-for-8 from […]

The Toronto Raptors lost an extremely close matchup in overtime to the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals. Kyle Lowry hit an unbelievable half-court to send the game into overtime but he has been cold from the field otherwise. While Lowry was walking into the stadium tonight he missed again when […]

The Toronto Raptors have made it past the first round for the first time since 2001, but they’ve been struggling in their eight postseason games so far. A lot of those struggles can be attributed to the horrid shooting of Kyle Lowry. Lowry’s season averages of 21.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 6.4 assists, and 2.1 steals […]

Despite some late-game heroics by Kyle Lowry to force overtime (which literally brought Dwyane Wade to his knees), the Toronto Raptors dropped Game 1 of their second round matchup with the Miami Heat. On the night, Lowry shot an abysmal 3-for-13 from the field and 1-for-7 from 3-point range (the one make came from beyond […]