Toronto Aggressively Trying to Keep Lowry

Happy KLow gets paid. Dude deserves every penny.

 

Good for Lowry, I always admired his competitiveness, passion, and tenacity. Showed he actually cared out there on the court and its paying off now.

 

Pumped for Kyle. So pumped.

 

MARC SPEARS GOT RIC BUCHER'D!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Received a scam text from someone posing as Raptors front office member.There is no offer on the table paying $14M.Apologize for the mistake</p>&mdash; Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/statuses/483803307773657088">July 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Yeah. Could be 14.5, 13.4, 12.3, 11.2... which is about $12.8M/year... which is a lot, but not unreasonably.

Rockets might be willing to offer Lowry similar amounts of money per year, plus no state taxes vs. high Canada taxes.

EDIT: Well, never mind I guess . I still think it's likely he'll get $12M/year+, though.

 

Bucher got tricked by someone claiming to be in the Raptors office as well

 

I've got a stricter policy on this stuff now....if it's not Woj, Amick or Feigen, I don't believe it.

 

Raptors are just trolling

 

Raptors sent that text out to see the reaction it would get. Judge the market, so to speak.

 

Apparently some weirdo is catfishing reporters with fake Raptors scoops:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Approach tweets re Raptors free agency with caution. I am told there is some clever scamming going on from phone w 414 area code.</p>&mdash; Michael Grange (@michaelgrange) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgrange/statuses/483805006005424128">July 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Stein still reporting 12 mil + offer from Toronto though. Right?

 

Somewhere Bucher is rejoicing.

 

It's all about the back office, not the front office.

 

I saw in the other thread that Morey was in Philly Recruiting Lowry? Unsure if true, and haven't seen any confirming sources. Let's get Lowry/Love and call it an offseason! I'm not exactly sure how salary would match up, but I assume a sign and trade with Minnesota for Parsons, Terrence Jones, and the NOP first round pick (plus maybe our own pick?) would make this pipe dream a reality. Maybe we could also send Lin to Toronto, as he is already hugely popular in that city. Get it done Morey!

 

It's probably Bucher doing it lol.

 

Lowry will need to take a paycheck I assume.

LL + HH = Championships!

 

per Woj, we are recruiting Lowry

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey has traveled to Philadelphia to meet with free agent guard Kyle Lowry tonight, league source tells Yahoo.</p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/483825587471937536">July 1, 2014</a></blockquote>
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