Kyle Lowry's late-career box score is rough enough to make people look backward.
Not at his peak, because that part is easy to explain. Lowry made six All-Star teams, won the 2019 championship with Toronto, earned Olympic gold and became one of the central players in Raptors history. That is a real resume.
The strange part is the present. ESPN has Lowry, now 40, averaging 1.2 points, 0.6 rebounds and 0.8 assists for Philadelphia in 2025-26. In 14 games, he has gone 4-for-25 overall and 4-for-25 from three. Both shooting marks sit at 16.0%.
That puts him in the same uncomfortable bucket as other great players whose endings got very small.
Bob Cousy is the cleanest historical example. He returned in 1969-70 as a player-coach for Cincinnati, seven years after his Celtics run was over. Basketball-Reference and StatMuse list him at seven games, 4.9 minutes, 0.7 points, 0.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.
There are postseason cases too. Tracy McGrady scored zero points in six games for San Antonio in 2013. Jason Kidd averaged 0.9 points on 12% shooting across 12 playoff games with New York.
Lowry's season does not erase the Toronto years. It just belongs to that strange final chapter where the name is famous and the role is almost gone.
That is a hard place to watch.
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