TORONTO — The business of professional basketball is a weird one at the best of times, but it reaches its nadir of weirdness around this time of the season.
By Thursday at 3 p.m. ET / noon PT, everyone will know who they’re playing with and for what team. Until then, it feels like anything is possible, even if it’s really not, given the strictures of the NBA salary cap, among other considerations.
But trades are rumoured, possibilities pondered, and sometimes they even happen.
As the Toronto Raptors showed up for their game Wednesday night against the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves, their friend and former teammate Ochai Agbaji was missing. He was well-liked, hard-working and at times looked like he might be a…