NBA Trade Rumors: 3 best landing spots for Kyle Lowry

Best landing spots for Kyle Lowry: Philadelphia 76ers

Currently sitting atop the Eastern Conference and their best player, Joel Embiid is the favorite for the MVP award in some people’s eyes. Adding Kyle Lowry to the mix would give the Philadelphia 76ers an elite shooter who can play with the ball in his hands or off the ball then Ben Simmons or Embiid are doing their thing.

Bolstering Philly’s case is that Lowry is from Philadelphia, still has a house there and it’s not the first time he has been rumored to head home.

Throwing a spanner in the works is the fact that Kyle wanting to head home “just isn’t true” according to Mark Bartelstein, Lowry’s agent.

On top of that, for any trade to work, the Sixers would have to send back a whole lot of players in return. Assuming Philadelphia doesn’t trade one of their core three players in Simmons, Embiid, and Tobias Harris, they would have to cobble together contracts to make up Kyle’s $30 million he’s owed.

That would see Toronto get a collection of players like Danny Green, Mike Scott, and Matisse Thybulle (the latter would be in there as a positive asset in return). That trade doesn’t actually work, the Sixers would need to send out another player worth $1 million or more.

On the receiving end, that would force the Raptors to cut players on their roster to make it work. It’s not just that they’re getting this collection of role players they (probably) don’t want, it’s that it would dig into their own lower roster players.