TORONTO – Help might not be coming.

Not a trade, not a single move by the Feb. 8 deadline.

A reality that Bulls fans need to start embracing.

What the front office won’t do is be peer pressured into trying to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Pacers, Knicks and Raptors.

In the last few weeks alone, New York acquired OG Anunoby, Indiana grabbed Pascal Siakam, and Toronto added RJ Barrett, Bruce Brown and Immanuel Quickley. Three teams residing in the same zip code as the Bulls, looking to jump up this season or build towards something in the immediate future.

The Bulls?

Crickets so far.

What Bulls coach Billy Donovan made very clear prior to the 116-110 win over the Raptors on Thursday was his franchise would not react based on what other teams in the Eastern Conference were doing.

“I haven’t really ever heard (the front office) say, ‘This is going, this is happening, we’ve got to go do something.’ I think everything, from my perspective, has always been well thought out, looking at the team, how do we make it better?” Donovan said. “We’re always doing that through the course of the season, looking for ways to make us better. But I haven’t had a conversation like that. Like, ‘Hey, Anunoby is going to New York, hey, we’ve got to do (something) … ‘ I’ve never had a conversation like that with them at all.”

Maybe he should.

What has remained constant since Zach LaVine and his representation made it clear in November that they would be open to be sent elsewhere is the front office has been unable to find a dance partner for the two-time All-Star’s services.

That’s left them playing the slow game.

Alex Caruso? There’s a long line of teams for his skillset. DeMar DeRozan? Depends on the executive that’s spoken to. However, the issue remains that executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas was only looking to move off LaVine, and then reassess.

A simple plan proving to be very difficult.

First, there’s the remaining money on LaVine’s max contract which runs through the 2026-27 season with a player option of just under $49 million in that final year. The smaller obstacle? LaVine’s availability.

He missed 17 games with a right foot injury, and then in the third quarter against Toronto, rolled his right ankle going to the rim. LaVine went to the locker room, came back out and gave it a go for a few minutes in the fourth, but it was obvious he wasn’t right.

“I could tell when he got back in there he wasn’t moving great,” Donovan said. “I think he wanted to keep going. He could never get himself going.”

Nikola Vucevic didn’t have that problem, as the Bulls center took advantage of a smaller Raptors lineup missing center Jakob Poeltl (ankle/illness). He finished with 24 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists, and it should have been more with Donovan admitting that they needed to search out Vucevic more than they did.

Not that Vucevic was one to complain.

“With them missing Poeltl we knew they had a little bit of a size disadvantage, and we were trying to take advantage of it,” Vucevic said. “There were probably some more opportunities, but sometimes it’s tough because they were switching and helping a lot. We did a good job moving the ball and being aggressive.”

That aggressiveness showed itself late, as Coby White hit a go-ahead shot with just over two minutes left, DeMar DeRozan put the Bulls up four with two free throws, and then White iced it with a driving floater with 19.7 seconds left.

The Bulls (20-23) have now taken two-of-three from Toronto this season with one more meeting left.