Even if you didn’t spend yesterday obsessively refreshing Woj’s Twitter and practicing pursed lip breathing, chances are you at least felt some form of dread as we approached the 3:00 PM EST trade deadline. Even for those who fancy themselves calculating, business-first fans with no regard for sentimentality, the thought of greatest-Raptor-ever Kyle Lowry being traded was still emotionally investing — for those of us whose eyes were glued to their Twitter feeds, it was perhaps emotionally exhausting.
But, as it turned out, Kyle Lowry’s extremely Kyle Lowry-esque performance against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday (8 points on 3-of-5 shooting, 5 boards, 9 assists, career-high plus-42 rating, win) was not his farewell.