As a guest on CJ McCollum’s “Pull Up” podcast last week, former Raptor Kyle Lowry (still weird to type that) provided some insight into what happened at the trade deadline in March when everyone expected Toronto to move its starting point guard to a contending team.
According to Lowry, the front office had an open line of communication with him throughout the process and even gave him the choice of picking where he wanted to go. The two teams that emerged as frontrunners to trade for Lowry were Philadelphia and Miami.
The trade packages were underwhelming, and that was part of the reason Lowry ended up staying put in Tampa with the Raptors.