We’ve all heard the old saying: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” Somewhere along the way Kyle Lowry got it garbled. He’s shown a knack for taking those who ought to be closest to him — specifically the people who’ve helped him build a wildly successful NBA career — and turning them into enemies, imagined or otherwise.
So it was no real shock to hear Lowry single out his new in-house foe on ESPN on Wednesday. With the U.S. sports giant devoting immense resources to shine a spotlight on Toronto’s top-of-the-league NBA team — with the Raptors featured in ESPN’s day-long All Access, shown on multiple platforms consumed by millions — Lowry chose the moment to lay bare the chill he says exists between him and the man who heads the organization.