“We have grown men,” Lowry told me. “We have professionals. We have guys who grew up in tough situations. We’re all coming from situations where we weren’t given a silver spoon. A lot of us say we got it from the night, and a lot of our guys have done that. We have a bunch of young guys who follow that suit. They continue to want us to be leaders and they want to follow us. Myself, Marc (Gasol), Freddy (VanVleet), Serge, Pascal (Siakam), we’re guys that work hard at our crafts. “We know how hard it is and we know where we come from and we know what type of communities and situations we’ve been in to be leaders.”