Miami has turned the tables in the playoffs, with the single biggest key being former starter — and star — Kyle Lowry.
entering Monday’s Game 4 versus the Knicks, coming off the bench despite coach Erik Spoelstra proclaiming him a Hall of Famer.
Many former stars with that pedigree would chafe at a reserve role, but for Lowry, winning is more important than résumé. “He’s the ultimate winner. What drives him more than anything is winning,” Spoelstra said. “And there were just unfortunate circumstances how we got to this; his injury shutting him down for five weeks. … It just made the most sense initially to bring him off the bench.
“Then it just got so late, we didn’t have a lot of time, we just stayed with it. And he’s been fantastic about it. You’re bringing a Hall of Fame mind off the bench, and our second unit was struggling for much of the year, you shift him into there, a lot of these things we were working on endlessly just kind of get taken care of.“He’s smart enough and experienced enough to get it. He’s wrapping his mind on just this, what we need from this team right now for this playoff run.
While Bam Adebayo called it a “grown-man move” for Lowry to accept the reserve role after that knee injury, the guard shrugged it off.
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