The Toronto Raptors finally snapped their nine-game losing streak on Wednesday at home against the Denver Nuggets. Kyle Lowry was a career-high plus-42 in the win, gesturing at the camera after the game as he walked to the locker room and then holding a 22-minute session with the media. It felt like a farewell to the greatest Raptor of all-time. And then the trade deadline passed the next day, and he stayed.
Toronto did take a step towards building for the future by trading Norman Powell to Portland and recouping some draft capital in separate trades that sent Matt Thomas to Utah and Terence Davis to Sacramento.