Two questions dominated the discourse heading into the Raptors’ Wednesday night date with the Indiana Pacers. The first: would the second-seed Raptors feel compelled to beef up the roster ahead of Thursdays trade deadline? And just as important: what about scarfs?
In a roundabout way, you could say the second query helped inform the ultimate answer to the first. The Raptors stood pat at today’s trade deadline. After the week theoretical trade chips Serge Ibaka and OG Anunoby have had on and off the court, that’s a relief.
Between OG’s enthralling appearance on Ibaka’s fandom-enriching fashion show, the ensuing scarf wars that went down on the pregame runway, and the pair’s very different but very meaningful contributions to one of the Raptors’ most kick ass wins of the year, Ibaka and Anunoby proved that the mix of this Raptors team was just about flawless well before Thursday’s 3pm buzzer.