TORONTO

The Raptors completed a minor deal, but couldn’t swing the big one the city seems to be waiting for on the NBA’s trade deadline day.

No, Andrea Bargnani wasn’t mercifully put out of his Toronto misery, but Sebastian Telfair has been landed to give head coach Dwane Casey a third option at point guard.

The veteran was acquired from Phoenix in exchange for a protected second-round pick, and centre Hamed Haddadi.

“Acquiring Sebastian Telfair, who has played and started a fair number of NBA games during his career, addresses our depth issue at the point guard position,” said Raptors president/general manager Bryan Colangelo in a release..

The 27-year-old Telfair came to the NBA amidst huge hype, after starring at Lincoln High School in Coney Island, Brooklyn, like his cousin, Stephon Marbury.

But Telfair was never able to live up to expectations after being selected by Portland with the 13th pick of the 2004 NBA draft.

He has played for six teams, averaging 7.5 points, 3.5 assists and 21 minutes per game on 39.2% shooting.

Telfair, in the final year of his contract, is shooting a career-best 38.1% from three for Phoenix this season.

Telfair is tight with Rudy Gay, Kyle Lowry and Alan Anderson, since they have all trained together in recent summers at Impact Basketball in Las Vegas.

Haddadi has visa issues and was never forced to report to the Raptors after being thrown into the Gay for Jose Calderon and Ed Davis deal three weeks ago.

Meanwhile, Colangelo is still waiting for an acceptable offer for Bargnani, who is struggling through the worst season of his career while drawing increasingly louder boos from the ACC faithful.

The team will attempt to reintegrate Bargnani into the offence to both boost the bench and to try to reignite his trade value heading into the off-season.

The second-round pick involved in the Telfair deal is the lesser of Toronto or Sacramento's 2014 second, but Toronto's pick is protected 30-36 meaning if both teams pick in that range, Phoenix does not receive a pick. Instead, the Suns would only have the right to swap seconds with the Raptors in 2015.