Sometimes, the very best thing to do at the trade deadline is nothing at all.
When you’re this close, you go for it, right?
Well, not necessarily. There’s the cost of adding players, and there’s always the issue of how even one new player can upset that which has been working smoothly.
But the Toronto Raptors would surely have been forgiven on Thursday if they’d gone for broke. Maybe not do what Cleveland did — who does what Cleveland did?