Lowry sends heartfelt message to friend DeRozan for his birthday

Toronto Raptors guards DeMar DeRozan, left, and Kyle Lowry. (Frank Gunn/CP)

Toronto Raptors’ fans by now are well aware of the bromance shared between the team’s two stars, Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan. Since they became teammates in Toronto in 2012, the two have led the Raptors to some of the best seasons in franchise history. Currently, the two are teammates at Rio 2016 with the U.S. men’s basketball team.

With DeRozan turning 27 on Sunday, Lowry shared a post on Instagram describing how much their friendship means to hi:

“This is a real friendship , this is a real bother, this is us forreal!!! Words can only explain so much to what this dude means to me so it’s not going even matter what i say because words can’t explain how important our friendship is to me. Thank you for being you at all time no matter what from DAY1 (even though you ain’t pass me the ball back when I 1st got to the team jk) but we’ve grown as men, fathers , sons, and everything else in the last 4 years and most importantly we’ve done it TOGETHER!! I could go on and on but I ain’t because you soft and might cry when you read it so imma stop now. I love you bro that’s real talk, no matter what happens ever in life we still gone be brothers!! Happy life day !!!!”

You can see the full post here and see Lowry and DeRozan in action with Team USA next on Monday night against Venezuela.

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