While subsequent reporting earlier this month suggested that the Miami Heat (28-23) brain trust would not be trying to flip Kyle Lowry at the trade deadline and break up their core of Lowry-Tyler Herro-Jimmy Butler-Bam Adebayo, other NBA teams are continuing to “call to gauge whether that remains true,” per Action Network’s Matt Moore.
“The three big ones (point guards) on the market are Fred VanVleet, Mike Conley, and Kyle Lowry,” Moore wrote. “Some recent reporting out of Miami has suggested that Lowry is not available, but teams continue to call to gauge whether that remains true as the Heat struggle to generate anything resembling a functioning playoff-level offense.