This isn’t Miami “Heat” fandom writing these opinions, it is sports talking head shock jocks. Plus this site got Lowry’s quote wrong, which I corrected in brackets. Plus it makes no sense that a guy who is making $28M/year would lie to the team about his fitness to play just to get a free ride to Philly. So I reprint all of this not because I agree with it but because I do think, and have thought, that franchise and player are estranged. And I do think that goes back to the demands of “Heat” “Culture” and to the horrific near mid-game fight among Erik Spoelstra, Jimmy Butler and Udonis Haslem last season. Lowry was on the court for that incident and looked deer-in-headlights stunned. And because we fans were owed an explanation for the “personal reasons” that kept Lowry out for several stretches last season.  In all, I reprint this because I don’t think Kyle Lowry wants to play for Miami any longer and hasn’t wanted to for some time.

Kyle Lowry hasn’t played in a month. After being labeled as “questionable” to play in the Miami Heat’s road win over the Philadelphia 76ers Monday, Lowry has gone back to being out indefinitely.

After last year’s exit in the Eastern Conference Finals, Pat Riley challenged Lowry to get in “world class shape.” [Asked about Riley’s comments] At the opening of training camp this year, Lowry said [only that “he has his opinion.”] And his play continued to plummet.

The 2019 NBA champion hasn’t had a great tenure with Miami. He admitted a personal issue that caused him to miss 13 games during the 2021-22 season “kind of derailed my whole season.” He suffered a hamstring injury in the first round of the playoffs and never delivered as the third star the Heat hoped he could be.
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Fans have soured on Lowry. Going back to him being tagged as “questionable” earlier this week, some speculated that Lowry lied to the team about his willingness to play to see his family in his hometown of Philadelphia. Zaslow said it feels like Lowry “duped the franchise.”

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Lowry lied to the Heat and said he would come off the bench, even though he was never coming back. They believed him, and decided they didn’t need another PG. Then, he told them he was close to playing for a plane ride to Philly to see family. They still owe him close to $30M.

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The Heat signed Lowry to a three-year, $85 million contract for him to buttress a team around Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo to win a championship. But it now seems like it wasn’t the right move to trade Goran Dragic for Lowry two seasons ago.