The NBA’s bubble playoffs has unquestionably given us a lot of great basketball that we should all be thankful for.
It feels like every single game is some stress inducing experience, even though a lot of us don’t even root for the teams that are playing. These games are somehow always close.
The playoffs have also undoubtedly delivered us some pretty incredible meme content. There was Anthony Davis, a panicky Kawhi Leonard and (somehow?) Drake.
Now, we’ve got Kyle Lowry and his huge smile.
After delivering a spectacular game winning pass to OG Anunoby on Thursday, Lowry ran over to hug is teammate and celebrate their miraculous win. You know, how teammates do.
But nobody was as happy as Lowry was. That was made clear by this absolutely ridiculous smile he let off.
"Mentally I'm here" pic.twitter.com/pUkNOxmOGi
— ESPN (@espn) September 4, 2020
Fam. What a smile. That is a happy, happy man. Get you somebody that smiles at you like Kyle Lowry smiles at, well, whatever.
NBA Twitter took this and ran with it. NBA on TNT built a whole smiling Kyle Lowry montage.
A Game 3 win = a happy Kyle Lowry 😁 pic.twitter.com/iybY2QYyL0
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) September 4, 2020
Then the jokes came. Ah, yes. The jokes. They turned him into a 90’s sitcom, y’all.
Kyle Lowry looked directly at the camera & smiled like a ‘90s sitcom intro pic.twitter.com/FHb18qHPAo
— Christopher Hudspeth (@CEHudspeth) September 4, 2020
Kyle is every Raptors fan right now. https://t.co/L66bTlvGLn
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) September 4, 2020
— Becca Winkert (@BeccaMVP) September 4, 2020
But, really, everyone just wants to be as happy as Lowry is someday.
Name someone happier than Kyle Lowry.
…(that's impossible). 😂#WeTheNorth pic.twitter.com/wqthYfReKv
— Tim and Sid (@timandsid) September 4, 2020
I aspire to smile as big as Kyle Lowry just did lol
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) September 4, 2020
Can we all agree to smile like Kyle Lowry as we head into the three day weekend? pic.twitter.com/iNwJjDbg4e
— Meagan Moore (@meaganmacmoore) September 4, 2020
Even the city of Toronto was in on it.
Good Morning #Toronto! 💜
Have a Smiley 😄 Friday: c/o @Klow7 #WeTheNorth pic.twitter.com/p8xoAG8Oyp— T O R O N T O 🍁 (@Toronto) September 4, 2020
Shouts to Lowry for delivering a big Raptors win and the biggest smile of all-time. We needed that.
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