There’s a predictable movement going on in the days after the Heat season. It’s the “Kyle Lowry can’t help them” movement, and it’s grown louder.
That’s because Lowry didn’t just have a tortured spring between a hamstring injury and hamstrung game. It’s because of his older age and oversized condition, his smaller size and body size, the Heat’s demanding culture and his apparently wayward condition.
In a sport of streamlined bodies, Lowry looks what people once euphemistically called “husky.” He always has, too, even in his best years. It gets traffic in a new market when he doesn’t seem to hold up his end of the bargain.
