These are unique times for the Toronto Raptors as the NBA free-agency period approaches. Unprecedented times, really, in franchise history.
There are no huge roster holes to fill and they enter the summer as the league champions, very much able to sit and catch their breath and wait for the one big decision to be made for them.
“I think our team is in a good place where we can be in a holding pattern,” team president Masai Ujiri said this week. “We don’t have to react to anything that’s done in any way.”
But wait they must.