John Stockton, the Utah Jazz point guard who never converted to the trend of longer shorts and retained his short-shorts throughout his entire illustrious NBA career. John Stockton was drafted sixteenth overall in the 1984 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz were he spent his entire nineteen-year career. Stockton's ability to put other players in positions of success was uncanny and his court vision can barely be mimicked to this very day.
Stockton led the NBA in assists for nine consecutive years ranging from 1988 to 1996. He was also a ten-time NBA All-Star and two-time Olympic Gold medalist for the years 1992 and 1996. Unfortunately, Stockton was another NBA great that never got the chance to lift the Larry O'Brien trophy over his head in triumph but, he is the prototype for a nearly perfect point guard today.