As the longest-serving Toronto Raptor navigated the bubbly-splattered festivities at Oracle Arena, from the locker room to the interview room to the get-your-portrait-taken-with-the-Larry-O’Brien-Trophy room, Lowry’s lower half was wrapped in a towel. OAKLAND, CALIF.—Most of an hour into that ski-goggles-required championship celebration late Thursday night, a reporter observed Kyle Lowry and asked a rhetorical question: Had the Raptors point guard somehow lost his shorts? Yet on Thursday night that same guy played one of the best games of his career to win Ujiri’s franchise a ring. “You need Kyle Lowry, an all-star, he started the game, set the pace for us — unbelievable,” Ujiri said. It’s unbelievable to have guys like Kyle Lowry on your team who step up and go for 15 (points) in the first quarter,” VanVleet said.

Source: thestar June 14, 2019 23:05 UTC