By Chris Mannix Examining key questions and the latest chatter ahead of Thursday’s deadline. View the original article to see embedded media. There’s a chance, a pretty good one, that the NBA trade deadline will be anticlimactic. That’s because the usual flurry of activity that occurs in the hours, sometimes minutes, before Thursday’s 3 p.m. deadline has been spread out over the last several days. Portland didn’t wait until the last minute to overhaul its roster. Indiana and Cleveland didn’t play hardball over Caris LaVert. And the Kings, who have been positively torched on social media for in…