Why Jakob Poeltl should be Raptors’ trade deadline acquisition

The Toronto Raptors have spent the better part of the last half-decade navigating an uncertain trajectory with little more than hope as their guiding principle.

And in each of those seasons, the slow march toward the NBA trade deadline — as perilous as it feels walking through the snow-buried streets of Toronto these days — has felt equally unpredictable.

In part because labelling the Raptors front office as strictly buyers or sellers has never fit the franchise’s modus operandi.