The Toronto Raptors have just won the first NBA Championship in team history. However, it appears as though the offseason is well underway for not only the defending NBA Champion Raptors, but for each of the league's 30 franchises.

With the Raptors currently caught somewhere between celebrating the team's historic title and looking ahead to next year, superstar swingman and 2019 NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard isn't the only person that the Eastern Conference powerhouse is attempting to retain.

Even before Toronto took the Larry O'Brien Trophy north of the border to Canada, Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri was reportedly drawing interest from the Washington Wizards.

However, Wizards owner Ted Leonsis has since shot down such a rumors regarding the coveted Ujiri.

“Any reports that we have interest in Masai Ujiri as a candidate are simply not true, and we have never planned in any way to ask for permission to speak to him during our process,” Leonsis recently said, via Candace Buckner of The Washington Post.

Although the surging Raptors have been on the cusp of something great for the last few seasons, Ujiri obviously pushed the perfect button this past offseason en route to acquiring the aforementioned Leonard from the San Antonio Spurs.

Of course, in order to acquire Leonard, the Raptors were forced to part ways with franchise cornerstone and All-Star swingman DeMar DeRozan, a decision that was ultimately Ujiri's decision — one that surely paid off in the end despite initially drawing a multitude of criticism on a moral level.