The Toronto Raptors and the Utah Jazz face a fork in the road post-trade deadline, and today’s “Day 1” of their soft reset. The Raptors’ front office injected this team with a new lease of life and gave this core a chance to redeem themselves this season at the trade deadline by acquiring Jakob Poeltl and keeping the core intact. On the flip side, “Trader Danny” used the trade deadline to signal a change in direction by unloading talent to make a late run for the Wembanyama sweepstakes.
The Jazz embarrassed not just the Raptors team when these two teams met nine days ago.