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Birthday: March 26, 1962 in Spokane, Washington, USA

Birth Name: John Houston Stockton

Height: 183 cm

John Stockton is an American retired professional basketball player. He spent his entire NBA career (1984-2003) as a point guard for the Utah Jazz, and the team made the playoffs in each of his 19 sea ...Show More 1773

John Stockton is an American retired professional basketball player. He spent his entire NBA career (1984-2003) as a point guard for the Utah Jazz, and the team made the playoffs in each of his 19 seasons. In 1997 and 1998, together with his longtime teammate Karl Malone, Stockton led the Jazz to the franchise's only two NBA Finals appearances. Stockton is a ten-time NBA All-Star and a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (in 2009 for his individual career, and in 2010 as a member of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team "Dream Team"). In 1996, he was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history. Stockton holds the NBA records for most career assists and steals by wide margins and is regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time.John Stockton, along with other NBA stars, played on the basketball team in Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The 1992 team was the first U.S. Olympic squad to feature NBA players. The team became known as the Dream Team; the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame called it "the greatest collection of basketball talent on the planet". Stockton also played on the 1996 U.S. men's Olympic basketball team. Stockton won gold medals with both the 1992 and 1996 teams.Following his retirement, Stockton started coaching in youth teams, being an assistant on seven or eight teams at once in 2003.In 2013, Stockton released an autobiography entitled Assisted. Hide