With his third 3-point field goal of Monday’s game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Kyle Lowry passed Morris Peterson as the Toronto Raptors’ all-time leading 3-point shooter.
Lowry is tied for third in the NBA this season with 167 threes made, and his current 81-game pace of 260 would easily blow away the franchise record for a single season that he set last year (212), breaking his earlier franchise record from 2013-14 (190). He also ranks 11th among qualified shooters with a 41.9-percent mark from outside this year.
UPDATE: Lowry would hit two more threes to finish 5-of-8, giving him 804 in his Raptors career.
Now, as friend of the site Chris Black pointed out last week, it’s difficult to compare 3-point shooting across eras (Terrence Ross ranking third speaks to that), and the increase reliance on the triple in today’s game makes all long-range records tenuous at best. Still, Lowry passing Peterson in 196 fewer games is pretty remarkable, and any player storming to a franchise record in just five seasons is impressive. Plus, Lowry has little chance of catching DeMar DeRozan for points or games played, so it’s nice to get him on the leaderboard somewhere – he’s still well behind Jose Calderon for assists and probably won’t pass Doug Christie for steals until late in the year, if at all.
Anyway, if nothing else, a reminder that Lowry is the greatest, even in these tough times. Kyle Lowry Over Everything.
