Recently, I went to a Philadelphia 76ers game in which VJ Edgecombe and Paul George were both sidelined with injury. Even with two key players missing in a game the Sixers lost by more than 40, Kyle Lowry wasn't even close to entering the game.
The few, brave, scary fans who stayed for all 48 minutes were literally chanting, "We want Kyle," throughout the fourth quarter, but the Toronto Raptors legend stayed on the bench. Hell, Lowry was barely even in the Sixers' huddle during timeouts — he was shooting backwards halfcourt shots with Franklin, the team's horrifying humanoid dog mascot.