For a week now, they've been peppered with the question wherever they've gone, in East Coast locales from Boston down to New York and Washington, and even over in Detroit.
     
It will probably happen, too, today in Toronto, where the 3-7 Jazz close a five-game road trip with an afternoon matinee against the 4-4 Raptors.
     
Is this it?
     
Will be this final time through town for 40-year-old John Stockton and 39-year-old Karl Malone, the Jazz duo who look like they could play forever but eventually must retire?
     
Everywhere they go, people want to know.
     
Media members. Fans. Even opposing players.
     
"People bring it up, and so be it," Malone, the NBA's No. 2 all-time scorer, said the other night in Washington, where it happened to him yet again. "You can't do nothing about that."