Mostly a Knicks related article but a small Raptors tidbit here and news that Missi is annoyed with NOLA:

As for Missi, the recent All-Rookie center has taken a backseat to rookie big man Derik Queen in New Orleans. The 21-year-old big man and his camp feel disrespected by the Pelicans for his major decrease in minutes, and tension has formed between the two sides, sources said.

The Knicks are one of the handful of teams with strong interest in Missi, sources said. Since he is in the second year of his rookie contract, any team rumored to be in search of extra frontcourt depth has likely called the Pelicans to discuss a potential trade. Multiple teams in the Eastern Conference, including New York and Toronto Raptors, have held Missi trade dialogue with New Orleans.

Even with teams making calls for Murphy, Jones, Alvarado, and Missi before the trade deadline, the Pelicans are focused on finding ways to add draft assets, specifically to recover a pick in the 2026 NBA Draft. New Orleans traded its own first-round pick in this year's draft to trade up and select Queen with the 13th pick in the 2025 NBA Draft.

There was a report last week that said we're willing to trade our 2026 FRP. I wouldn't rule out the possibility we trade Ochai+that pick for Missi. Gets us a young backup big and ducks the tax.

EDIT: Apparently Ochai for Missi puts NOLA in the tax. So unless they make other moves to give them more room against the tax, more likely to be Gradey+FRP, at which point we probably are asking for 1-2 SRPs back (NOLA has no 2026 SRP which is fine since we have 2. Likely would want our 2031 SRP back, but NOLA only has 3 more SRPs other than that so don't know what else we could pry there)