I think this is going to go right down to the trade deadline and I'm not looking forward to a full month of Lowry rumours.
That said, I imagine that Lowry's preference is firstly to stay with the Raptors and get resigned in the offseason, or secondly get traded to Philly and get resigned there in the offseason. He might go as far as telling Masai, either plan on bringing him back on a fair contract, or trade him to Philly now. And Masai and Webster might want to wait until closer to the deadline to try and get a long-term read on the team. Maybe they want to get more of a read on whether a FVV+Powell+Anunoby+Siakam core is good enough going forward, in which case a trade for a C makes a lot of sense.
The thing he wants to avoid is going into the offseason with the Raptors still holding his bird rights and not planning on bringing him back (or his bird-rights traded to a team he doesn't want to play for).
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