They are so inexorably linked to the greatest era in Raptors franchise history, the greatest era in the last half of a century of all Toronto sports it can be said, that it is incomprehensible to a generation of fans that they may have seen the last of Kyle Lowry and Masai Ujiri.
Strong-willed winners, confident in their abilities to lead, single-minded in their pursuit of excellence for themselves, for their teammates, for their colleagues and for fans, the two face decisions in the next month that may alter the basketball landscape in Toronto forever.