{"id":786216,"date":"2026-07-08T04:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:31:09","slug":"kyle-lowry-retires-from-nba-with-raptors-in-emotional-farewell-video-signs-1-day-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786216\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Lowry Retires from NBA with Raptors in Emotional Farewell Video, Signs 1-Day Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Twenty-year NBA veteran Kyle Lowry officially announced his retirement from the league with the Toronto Raptors in a farewell video on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\"><a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nba\/article\/kyle-lowry-to-retire-with-toronto-raptors\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Grange<\/a> of Sportsnet first reported the decision on July 2, and Lowry appeared to address the news at the time on Instagram:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Lowry played for the Memphis Grizzlies and Houston Rockets over his first seven seasons before the Rockets traded him to the Raptors in July 2012, beginning a nine-season tenure with the team. Lowry played for the Miami Heat and then his hometown Philadelphia 76ers over the last five seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Over nine seasons in Toronto, Lowry averaged 17.5 points, 7.1 assists, 4.9 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game. He made the All-Star team in six straight seasons and made the All-NBA Third Team in 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Toronto made the playoffs each season from 2013-14 to 2019-20 with Lowry running the point. The Raptors won between 51 and 59 games per season from 2015-16 to 2019-20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">In addition to the aforementioned accolades, Lowry is also <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/teams\/TOR\/leaders_career.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto&#8217;s all-time leader<\/a> in three-point field goals, assists and steals. He also won a gold medal with Team USA men&#8217;s basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Needless to say, Lowry is a Raptor legend, especially after the NBA championship season. So a day in honor of Lowry is certainly appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-year NBA veteran Kyle Lowry officially announced his retirement from the league with the Toronto Raptors in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-786216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}