NBC Sports Philadelphia<\/a> had Tyrese Maxey on the headset. Maxey had led the Sixers with 33 points on 10-for-16 field goal shooting (6-for-9 from long range) in a stellar performance. In the fourth quarter, he was out on the floor as the crowd grew louder and louder, for what felt like the entire period, demanding to see Lowry. Sixers play-by-play commentator Kate Scott asked him about experiencing that entire moment for his teammate.<\/p>\n\u201cHe deserve every bit of that love, every bit of it. He brought this franchise a title, but what he did for this franchise was bigger than just bringing a title though. The culture, they still play with that same culture, that toughness. I\u2019m just happy for him. I told him \u2018I\u2019m about to start crying,\u2019\u201d Maxey said.<\/p>\n
Maxey was visibly a bit more toned down than usual in this postgame interview, and even seemed to get a bit emotional at times talking about Lowry\u2019s presence in his career and his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s helped me so much, man. We talk at least five times a day. As soon as he got here, he just told me \u2018listen man, I\u2019m here for you. Whatever you need me to do, whatever you need from me, I\u2019m here for you every single day\u2019 and he\u2019s been that way man. Every single day. No matter when. It\u2019s not just basketball, it\u2019s life, my family, his family. It\u2019s gonna be that way forever. That\u2019s just real love and I appreciate him.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked about that relationship in his postgame interview, Lowry had to set the second straight though when a reporter phrased it as \u201cyou call Tyrese three or four times a day\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait, whoa whoa whoa whoa, I don\u2019t call him all the time. We have a mutual conversation. It\u2019s two and two,\u201d Lowry said with a chuckle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it\u2019s a real relationship of like big brother little brother,\u201d he continued. \u201cWatching games, seeing things in life, talking about life, talking about basketball, joking. It\u2019s a relationship that will continue to blossom throughout the rest of this season and the rest of his career, the rest of my life. I don\u2019t just look at him as like my teammate. I look at him as family and like a little brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, the 39-year-old Lowry will continue as a veteran leader for Maxey and the other Sixers in this his 20th NBA season.<\/p>\n
Lowry has said before (and reiterated to reporters after the game on Monday night) that he fully intends to sign a one-day contract to get to retire as a Raptor when that day finally comes.<\/p>\n
One can only imagine the retirement of the No. 7 in Toronto won\u2019t take too long after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia 76ers were able to get back in the win column on Monday evening, taking down the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,4186,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-534148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-raptors","11":"tag-sixers-news","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-raptors","14":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}