How do you measure heart?
Perhaps it’s in the way a basketball player is willing to sacrifice their body for the good of the team and stand above the charge circle to draw an offensive foul on their opponent. Or maybe it’s the way they can be the smallest player on the court yet find a way to grab the most pivotal rebound of the game using pure smarts. Or how about inspiring a franchise record 30-point comeback with just over a quarter of the game remaining?
If these are some of the ways in which you’ve come to understand what it means to leave it all out there on the basketball court, it’s because for nine years filled with blood, sweat, and tears as a Raptor, Kyle Lowry showed Toronto and Canada how to appreciate the little things: everything that happens in between the margins and beyond the box score.