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Game 6 of Raptors/Celtics was a bar fight disguised as a basketball game. Game 7 will likely be more of the same. And that plays right into the hand of Toronto's shiny, grimy, ultra-competitive leader, Kyle Lowry. (via michaelgrange)

Lowry dismissed all of it. It’s just basketball to him, and the tougher, scrappier and more heated, the better.

He’s overcome an early reputation as someone who struggled in the post-season with Toronto and he’s lasted long enough and played a high level enough that he’s getting legitimate consideration as a possible Hall-of-Fame candidate: heady stuff for a husky, 6-foot point guard taken 24th in the draft who hasn’t dunked in an NBA game for 12 seasons and who didn’t make an all-star team until his eighth season.

You want to get messy? You want to throw your body around, draw a charge, dive for a steal, box players that outweigh him by 40 pounds and somehow challenge for rebounds with men nearly a foot taller?“He’s played well, obviously,” said Raptors head coach Nick Nurse of Lowry’s performance against Boston. “He’s played tough. It’s a tough series. I think there’s a number of guys on both sides that have risen to the occasion from different games and different times.

Lowry got some attaboys when he burst out of the gates in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to score the Raptors first 11 points and make clear to all involved that Toronto was not leaving Oracle Arena without the Larry O’Brien Trophy.

 

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