On a night that started with a solo 5-0 run for Kyle Lowry and ended with Vince Carter surpassing 25,000 points, there’s a lot of tempting ways to make a poetic point about “full circle” narratives. I don’t want to retread that or any greatest Raptor debate, though; nor is it worth comparing the two for anything more than vanity.
There’s no doubt that Carter and Lowry are the two headlines from tonight, however; nor any doubt that Wednesday was a special night for both of them.
It ended with the first great Raptors player surpassed the 25,000 point marker against his old team — doing some shameless gunning in garbage time, capped with a dunk (beautiful!