In the fifth game of the 2019 Finals, when Kevin Durant was injured again after a hasty comeback and was helped by his teammates to limp off the field,
Raptors captain Lowry excitedly made a stop gesture to the fans who shouted "Durant roll down."
This extremely athletic move has captured the hearts of most fans.
Therefore, although the Warriors broke Durant and Thompson that year, so that the Raptors were lucky to win the first championship in team history, the public still fully recognized the Raptors' game performance and on-field demeanor.
In fact, at that time, Lori did not have a feeling of empathy in his heart.
Just ten years ago, when he was a nobody. Just on the sidelines, he watched the team boss fall on the field, and he deeply understood that despair.
Yao Ming, Los Angeles, 2009 Western Conference Semifinals First.
That was Yao Ming's personal peak in the NBA, and it was also the most exciting moment for the Rockets in Yao Mai's era.
In the Western Conference Semifinals, Yao Ming, who crossed the first round of the playoffs for the first time, and the Rockets, who were completely centered on him. Bumped into that year's First Los Angeles Lakers in the West.
At the peak of his personality, "Black Mamba" Bryant led his proud league's interior group — Bynum, Battier and Odom. Waiting in Los Angeles for the Rockets that Maddy has already paid off for the season.
As a result, on May 4, 2009, the first game of the Western Conference Finals, the Rockets vs Lakers, became Yao Ming's pinnacle battle, the representative of the NBA career.
He patiently rolled over and hooked his hands and jumped back, showing off in front of the young Bynum a variety of gorgeous moves belonging to the center, beating the sharks early into two fouls.
Replaced by Gasol, he used his physical advantage to turn around and break through, creating free throws, 2+1, and big hot pots, showing the dominance of a super center in all directions.
In the fourth quarter, the Lakers began a counterattack under Kobe Bryant, and Black Mamba opened the peak "scoring mode that ignores any defense" and then collided with Yao Ming in a breakthrough, with the Great Wall of China clutching his knees in pain.
Just when everyone thought he had fallen down again because of an injury, he came back.
When he was injured, fell to the ground, left the field and returned, the Lakers' home stadium erupted in applause. This transcends the opponent, beyond the victory or defeat, only for the return of a hero.
In the end, the Rockets struggled to save the victory 100-92. Yao Ming had 28 points and 10 rebounds, while Gasol and Bynum on the opposite side combined only had 24 points and 13 boards, and together they delivered a total of seven fouls on Yao Ming.
The victory in Los Angeles was the real pinnacle of his NBA career. He was injured, fell down, came back, and the Lakers' three interior lines and Kobe Bryant at his peak could not stop him.
You must know how terrible Kobe Bryant and the Lakers were that year, and you can understand how great Yao Ming was at that time.
And all this was seen by Lowry, who was only 22 years old at the time and was still sitting on the bench.
He is now a 35-year-old veteran and the only player on the 09 Rockets who is still active in the NBA.
Kyle Lowry – From Bear Boy to Dragon King
At $273 million, that's the total salary income of lowry's career at the moment, and he just signed to the Heat for three years of $85 million last year.
And Yao Ming, who earned 93.3 million in the NBA,
Maddy, on the other hand, is 163 million.
The sum of the salaries of these two rocket legends is not as good as the "little steel cannon" who once had them.
In the 2006 draft, the Memphis Grizzlies selected him with the 24th pick in the first round. He has the same stature as a football player, defending better than offense, breaking better than shooting, unfortunately only 1.83m.
There was also "Flying Squirrel" Stoudemire on the team at the time, and the next year the team selected Michael Conley, a high-achieving ohio student who was responsible for passing to Greg Auden.
Lowry played two and a half seasons with the Grizzlies, playing only 30 starts, 8 points and 3 assists each game, shooting 25% from three points, and it is not clear that there will be any big differences in the future.
It wasn't until a big deal in February 2009 that his career took a turn for the better.
The Rockets sent away Alstom, who played three seasons as a starting point guard, to Get De Quinn Cook, who once scored 83 points with Kobe, and the third-year guard.
Although the Rockets still need to play the bench for Aaron Brooks, Lowry can finally play the playoffs for the first time.
At that time, whenever Brooks, who was 1 meter 82 tall and only 74 kilograms, was targeted at the defensive end, Lowry had to be ordered to go on the court with Battier and Atai to build a perimeter "firewall" for Yao Ming.
In the first round of the 2009 playoffs, he bit the Blazers' white guard Steve Black to death.
The Western Conference semifinals played against Fisher, who was also a stout point guard for the Lakers. In the fourth game after Yao Ming's reimbursement, he repeatedly carried explosives packages into the Lakers interior line, scoring double figures for the first time in the playoffs, with 12 points, 2 boards, 2 assists and 2 steals.
In the seventh game of the elimination, he scored 8 points, 2 boards and 3 assists and 2 steals on two of three points. Then he ended his first playoff trip with his head held high.
In the 2009-10 season, the Rockets without Yao Mai gave everyone a stage to fight and show.
Brooks played the fastest improving player that year, and Lowry, who replaced him, was a barrel of explosives on the bench, and he and "God Bird" Landry formed the Rockets' bench gang at that time.
His three-pointers are still inaccurate (25.7%), but he defends toughly, pushes bravely and makes desperate layups. It all makes people have to look at this boy who is a little rough and a little reckless.
Then in the summer of 2010, the Rockets gave him a four-year, $24 million contract, and more importantly, the team fed up with Brooks' performance on the offensive end and the colander on the defensive end, and put him on the starting line.0
In the 2010-11 season, he averaged 13.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game for the first time in his career, and even though Yao Ming retired from injury, they still played ninth in the West, still "Texas undead small strong" style.
And this year he practiced three-pointers to 37.9 percent, throwing in 129 three-pointers throughout the season.
He's already a competent NBA starting point guard.
In the 2011-12 season, he rose steadily, averaging 14.3 points, 4.5 boards and 6.6 assists per game, but because of his strong thighs, he only played 48 games, and the team was still ninth in the West. But the Rockets wanted to live a different way.
In the summer of 2012, they made a big deal to james Harden, the best sixth man of the previous season, and poached Jeremy Lin from the free agent market who had just blown up the "Lin Crazy" whirlwind in the NBA.
So in July 2012, the Raptors exchanged a first-round pick for this "small steel cannon".
At that time, no one expected that he would pick up the first championship trophy in raptors history as captain seven years later.
In the Raptors' first year, he also had to share playing time with the team's veteran Spanish guard Calderon. But according to Lowry himself:
"The season with Jose [Calderon] was the fastest year I improved. He taught me how to read the game and I watched him play off the field and improved all the time. ”
But no one expected him to improve so much.
The following year (2013-14), he made a solid start, and handed over a report card of 17.9 points, 4.7 rebounds and 7.4 assists in 79 games, and he could also throw 2.4 three-pointers per game with a 38.0% shooting rate.
It was also after that season that the Raptors sent Rudy Guy away, completely building the team based on the combination of lowry and DeRozan's defenders.
So the rest of the story is known, and they gradually grew into one of the best backcourt combinations in the East, when probably only the talented Wizards, Bill Wall, could compete.
The Raptors are also among the top teams in the East under their leadership.
The only regrets are:
At that time, the East belonged entirely to the man named LeBron James.
In the 2015-16 season, the Raptors won 56 and lost 26 to the second place in the East, and the Eastern Conference Final was eliminated by the Cavaliers 4-2.
In the 2016-17 season, they tied for second place in the East with the Cavaliers with 51 wins and 31 losses, and the result was directly swept by LeBron 4-0 in the semifinals.
In the 2017-18 season, they won 59 and lost 23 to the first place in the East, and the result was still made 4-0 in the semifinals by the Cavaliers, who were fourth in the East.
Three consecutive years of failure have left them dubbed "garbage brothers". At the same time, after the Big Three of the Green Army, the four All-Stars of The Atlanta Hawks, and the Pacers of Paul George, they became another victim of LeBron's rule in the East.
Until the arrival of the 2018-19 season.
Leonard's conflict with the Spurs gave the Raptors a chance to bottom out, but at the cost of DeRozan, the team's all-time scoring champion at the time, and Lowry's closest comrade and brother.
They are not only partners who cooperate with tacit understanding on the field, but also close friends who take care of each other off the field. During DeRozan's depression, Lori would call him every day to dispel his negative emotions.
But as one of the team's double cores, Lowry accepted it calmly. The Raptors got leonard and Danny Green, two of them, and An all-Star center and best defensive player Mark Gasol in the middle of the season.
In the 2018-19 East, although the Bucks and Alphabet Brother regular season are flat, everyone knows that the Raptors are a very scary team.
The First Round of the Playoffs 4-1 Bucks, the Eastern Conference Semifinals play seven games against Philadelphia, which has Embiid, Butler and Simmons still playing seriously. Finally, with Leonard's legendary basket, the Emperor wept bitterly.
In the Eastern Conference Finals, they were 2-0 behind and won four consecutive games to kill the Bucks, and then the Finals faced Durant's absent five-star Warriors.
Maybe the basketball god is to repay The Pachulia's kick to Leonard that year, or maybe the five-star Warriors' momentum is too anti-heavenly, or they can't bear lowry, Gasol Jr., who have passed the age of establishment, and the veterans have never won a championship.
The Raptors in the Finals, surprisingly lucky.
Without Durant, the Warriors lost their sharpest arrows, and Curry seemed to have put all his hand to the Western Conference finals to teach Lillard, who led 3-1 in the first four games.
In the fifth game, Durant forced a comeback, and as a result, he was completely injured and recuperated for a year and a half.
In game six, the Warriors fought to the death, but Thompson, who scored 30 points in the third quarter, left the field with a serious injury. Only Curry, who was supported by himself, remained.
In the end, under the focus of Coach Nas's ingenious Box-1 tactics, Curry was unable to return to the sky.
The Raptors broke the Warriors' dream of three consecutive championships on the Road in Golden State, and also won the first championship trophy in team history.
From a first-round rookie who has just debuted in time and space, to the spiritual leader of the championship team,
From a reckless guard who would only break through and defend, but the league is recognized as the top organizer, three-point cannon, and six-time All-Star.
Kyle Lowry's career has continued from the time of Yao Mai to the present day.
He is not Owen's kind of head-to-head master, nor is he a three-point magic shot like Curry, and even his organizational skills are different from that of a grandmaster like Paul.
But for so many years, any coach and star has wanted to have such a reliable tough guy defender around them.
He will give the ball to the right teammate at the right time,
He'll hit those supposed three-point opportunities in the open space,
He will complete every tactic of the coach's shoulder strap without compromise,
And, in life and death, he will act as a qualified leader to inspire and help every teammate.
Now he's in the Heat, a team that didn't sweep the Bucks' first round 4-0 last season and is now losing 46-24 and finishing first in the East this year.
He was such a trustworthy man.