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Raptors Notes: Lowry, Powell, Trade Deadline

March 19th 2021 at 4:01pm CST by Luke Adams

Teams inquiring about Kyle Lowry‘s availability have been told that the Raptors aren’t planning on trading him, sources tell Josh Lewenberg of TSN.ca. Lewenberg is the second Raptors beat reporter to suggest as much, as Michael Grange of Sportsnet.ca wrote last week that the team is very unlikely to move its veteran point guard.

Both Lewenberg and Grange have presented their reports with the caveat that things could change between now and March 25, especially if Lowry’s preference is to move on. But with only six days left until the 2021 trade deadline, the 34-year-old still seems most likely to finish the season with Toronto.

Here’s more on the Raptors:

  • The Raptors shouldn’t trade Lowry just because he’s getting older and is about to reach free agency, argues Dan Devine of The Ringer. In Devine’s view, the connection Lowry has formed with fans in Toronto is rare, and the return the team would get in any trade is unlikely to be worth ending that relationship unless the point guard decides he wants out.
  • Norman Powell, who is eligible for free agency at season’s end, has been the subject of some trade speculation lately, but he’s not letting that bother him, as Lewenberg details. “I don’t concern myself with (trade rumors),” Powell said on Wednesday. “I’m just focused on trying to get these wins, trying to help the team win. I used to concern myself with that earlier in my (career), and now it’s just whatever happens, happens.”
  • Blake Murphy of The Athletic ran through a series of hypothetical Raptors trades – many involving Powell – soliciting feedback from his fellow beat writers at The Athletic.
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