The Complete Compilation of John Stockton's Greatest Stories Told By NBA Players & Legends

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series lastly comment down below which player you would like to see next in this series and without further ado welcome to the complete collection of john stockton's greatest stories i can remember uh coming into camp and seeing things he was doing i was like god i used to think my porn goal was good i said he's good if you were starting a franchise today who's your number one pick out of all the players of the nba you won't believe this but i like johnny stockton i think he's the most complete person in his position one of the greatest point guards of lady game i've always said i think john stockton is the perfect point guard you can't be fooled by that you know real nice face and you know that real quiet demeanor when he stepped on the court he was out to get you a guy who probably controlled a team and a game better than anybody i've ever seen probably one of the greatest players that would play the game in his position his sense of where he was on the floor his his peripheral vision you'd say how did he see him huh oh he's over there boom he throws the pass over there you can't teach what john stockton can see it's one of those guys every team wants a guy like john john stockton was he's one of the best i ever played against but those were illegal picks let's get that out the way i played against john since i was 13 years old and he's a much better outside shooter much better with the basketball and and when you're talking about you know nash and stockton i just think from a toughness standpoint i i don't i don't think there's a comparison well he's the best point guard of all time when you played against john i mean you you had to bring your lunch i mean you know there was a toughness about him that he carried that you know i don't know if we have anybody in our game today that that that really brings that that to the top anybody really got under your skin no question kenny touched on it earlier you play a playoff series and you go against a guy over and over again it's inevitable and we played utah two years in a row six games so 12 games against john stockton john was one of the strongest guards in the league i don't know if you guys felt that i hit by one on screen yeah he was but the toughness the the competitiveness and i have the greatest respect for him i see him away from the court love him great guy but he was a dirty bastard [Applause] never seen a therapist about this i'm gonna this is my time there you go and michael looked at stockton and said don't do that and now stockton comes up and gives it right back to michael we started this off this ball game off by saying that he does little things like that to drive you nuts john was a person that would boundaries the pg version of whatever yeah say that word on tv tv you [Laughter] i think that john understood there's a there's a a a a personal space law and he understood how to invade that and as a guard you know when i'm talking to you ernie i'm going to talk to you here but john exactly you're uncomfortable even though it's kind of european way a little you're shooting a jump shot it's respect that a guy shooting in a jump shot that you can't block it so you kind of just contest john may like he could block it and he'd get under your feet or when you're running out the ball is out of bounds he's running out he'd like this trip that he would do and all of a sudden the guy would trip and they'd throw the ball in at the same time and he'd go down and lay it in so he had a lot of those type of bastard lee moves the first person that you ran into that that like bust your ass that you you knew that was like man this for real like who's the first person that that you ran into and it was like man it's a level john stockton john stockton embarrassed me dog like john stockton made me feel like like damn dad like do i know how to play basketball you know you had that moment where you like like am i sorry dog like what the you know like what the is going on i've never been taking out the game so fast he had ripped me like twice like and not even like just being ripped on the ball it's just like heavy smarter than you you know i'm going for the outlet the wrong way you know what i mean boom still you know what i mean i get the loose ball oh he gone still i'm like yeah i'm gonna have to do something he see your mistakes he was tough hard though screams he way bigger than what you thought he was yeah he was he was way bigger than what i thought he was a lot taller yeah like you know when you look at him on the court on tv you know like his look could be deceiving it's almost like how steph curry look like on tv he looked like oh man like he just looked like a regular dude but like when you stand next to you like yo this you're like he big feel like an athlete yeah john stockton though he would like he was so dope dog because he he walked you all the way down to the wing right right and he'll walk you to the same spot whether you're pressuring him and not like he knew what spot he was going to get to he knew what he was like he was once he got to the spot best point guard to ever play the game is who oh john stockton magic johnson i mean those are the those those two are the best to probably ever play it what did stockton do better than you um he i think he had like three dollars okay all right all right and steals i mean he's the all-time assist leader in steals and you know people don't really talk about the steals as much as the assist but you know he plays both sides of the court and that's what makes him a complete player uh look when you look at those records it's just it's it's amazing and i i just don't think he gets the do that he deserves well he played in utah that's why well yes i i that's that's fine but still i think sometimes he's left out of the mix of you know great point guards great great point guards and and we forget to sometimes mention him all right now i i remember one story when we had lost a few games in a row we were back east and we were in charlotte okay and someone uh namely some a point guard named john stockton uh had her overheard something supposedly on the radio that uh grandmama larry johnson had said about mailman do you remember this yeah he he got my goat that night he needed something to get up going i think for 56 that night yeah and i got every pass i think from stock you wouldn't you fabricated a quote is that yeah i merely relayed what i had heard training for a career in journalism this guy's got all the makings you hear reliable source my source told me okay i've never really gotten over my first year i got traded to houston and he had to shout over me to to send the jazz to the finals russell will inbound that half court a stockton open three john stockton sends the utah jazz to the nba finals that was so many things all wrapped up into one it was it was our first chance to go to the championship it was really the first time we'd been able to beat houston at anything or just year after year we kept running those guys in the playoffs and and to finally get over that hump that was i think a snapshot of john stockton that we have never seen before i think other than the night that he was honored at the delta center the most emotional we've ever seen him welcome back to primetime stockton and larry you watched that again i saw with great uh great detail attention to detail and i got to tell you what happened in that play and if you now if you can see it again it would mean even more but at the time out the coaches are overdoing their thing and carl says hang on he says let me tell you what we ought to do he says stockton i guarantee you you will be open now and then they left the stock now they called a pick okay he didn't pick drexler he grabbed wrestler rexella wasn't going anywhere all night and he didn't get called for it because they were watching stock and then the infamous bill walton oh and he drilled into that was that had to be one of the great moments in jazz history [Music] [Applause] i was going to come to you about that because so many people miss the pick which is the reason the whole thing worked and as larry said it really wasn't a pick it was it was like fourth and one and you stopped the running back well it's like in a in a game like that that well i think one all-time greatest game you force a referee to make a call make him make an offensive file call you know not a lot of them would do it so i had in my mind that if it's any time that they gonna do it which who knows what would happen i said you know what stock are you going to be open he looked at me said okay and coach sloan looked and just sit down like you guys go on and do what you want to do and i went out there and it's like that's the only thing that came to my mind is not just say bear hugging but hold it and see what happened and when stock was so open when the ball left his hand i knew it was in it's just one of those things so it was like that was unbelievable most memorable play in your career oh yes about four that play right there and he had a lot of them but just that play right there and i think that's the most excited i've ever seen john and but it's like some of the some of the hits he took in the game for me and people need to go back and realize half of those points i wouldn't have got unless out wide open under the basket but just just the intensity and what he brought to the game was just i don't know it's just john unbelievable was one of the toughest guys i've played against that uh we had a series on the playoffs it was our first series in sacramento and uh we were playing against utah great carmelo on a stockton and i thought that our team was in all of them uh we were younger and so i told coach adama before the game i said uh on the first play of the game i'm gonna lay stockton's ass out coach said are you sure i said yeah i said trust me coach is the first game we just need to do it like you know they're they're prepared for everything that's coming they don't expect it i lay him out on the screen i'm talking about i lay him out one of the best screens i ever did got my shoulder kind of in that head area to kind of make it a little dirty he pops up off the ground patched me on the button says nice screen you know do you know how uh demoralizing that you know what i mean so yeah he's he was one of the toughest guys and i loved it too after that game we would play him in the playoffs and i would make rookies wait on the bus and i would say watch the baddest man in the world pull up and they're like what do you mean they think i'm gonna talk about like his cars and all this and john stockton would come to the game literally in a minivan pop his kids out come in there and bust us up and he would show up and he would probably have a plaid shirt on and you know jeans or something his hair parted neatly on the side looked he'd be so unassuming he'd be a guy that they probably check his id in other arenas oh yeah you even thought he was uh you know coming straight out of catholic church one of the kids up there you know lighting the candles or where you thought yeah he was the valet you definitely didn't think he was as bad as a man as he was but he knew that and he he knew that being unassuming was part of was part of his swagger so he knew that he used that to his advantage too and every once in a while on the bus we would hear it from the back of the bus coming coming out you know some some cliche that i had you know and that guy wasn't ready when we called on him we pushed his button but he wasn't ready and john could imitate that deadly you're making a million a year griffith you're making five hundred thousand three hundred thousand six hundred thousand what's larry bird worth eighteen million twenty million he's kicking our butts who's trying to motivate us we're down by 20. so we went out and lost by 30. a guy who still apparently gets in fights at pick-up games if we can believe what we hear in spokane washington well the thing about stock and and i have to go back to coach and larry one of the if not the toughest uh player i ever played with literally guy used to when he set pics for me and i felt bad i knew the ball was coming to me every single time he would set a pick in every game i would say god stop be careful he looked like what you know and then after the game his shoulder would be literally swollen and i just remember a time in training camp we was going after loose ball and of course i hit stop thinking it was somebody else who was picking on stock doing during the practice another guard because we you know had other thing and it was stopped so i hit the wrong guy and stock just brushed it off like well i know what you meant to do but he was he was like one of the toughest guys that i've ever played with you said that he was the one guy you just could not get under his skin that you couldn't get under their skin were there guys john stockton really could never how is that because john stockton never said anything to no one he didn't ever say nothing to me when i go at him and i say something about him he'll just walk like he didn't see me like i wasn't even there he doesn't go out there and and play around with the game he's very serious about it he's a smart basketball player you know everybody say he's dirty but i think that's wrong i think that's that's not a statement for him i think that she doesn't understand he goes out and play basketball the way he knows how to play hard he always just stayed away from me he didn't say a thing to me and it got to me so much because what he did was is he just didn't pay attention to me and then if if i if i say something anything about him my cuss or anything he'll just walk away and that was a problem well you don't give me a response that really hurts me because then you're not listening to me and he was the only guy that ever did that never listened to me and i said what am i doing and then all of a sudden and then all of a sudden he'll tell me he'll take a charge he'll get me on the bench and then he'll just look at me and nod and then i figured it out i said i gotta stop talking to him i just got a plane and i gotta beat him with with what he does don't say nothing to him and and go at him and when i start going at him and i figured him out uh they start doubling me and they start switching players on me and they they didn't let him guard me for at one point and then i said okay i figured him out i figured him out don't say nothing just go at him and then the game become became more competitive with me and him it wasn't like i was scared of him the hardest person you ever guarded man i'm gonna say john stockton man i've been getting a lot of slack for this guy here everybody's been asking me why he is the toughest person to guard other than mike instead of michael jordan first of all it's my opinion so that's the way it's going to go you made some headlines today because you said that john stockton was more difficult to defend than michael jordan blasphemy to me and you how you have to defend yourself because i want you to really guard michael jordan man listen he was a guy who was uh fundamentally sound he would set pics he would do the right thing he'll shoot 12 times he would and all that he was just great he wasn't tough jordan yes he was you just didn't yes he was gary you guys didn't play against him idea let me ask you this seriously because when you say that people are going to be like are you joking and they did today a lot of people i know a lot of people and i got to get not enough time not just based off the number of times that you saw john stockton but you're saying that he was more fundamentally sound than michael jordan we're more athletic than he was we were mad because he said picks and said he was dirty if a guy comes and shoots 12 times makes nine of them shoots eight free throws and makes seven of them that's 20 something points and have 15 assists and four steals a game and works out with carl malone can do it on a continuous basis and i have to play against him nine seven and nine times a year that is hard no i believe that gary let's be honest you just didn't like playing him because he wouldn't he wouldn't he wouldn't talk back to you true that's true that's the thing too he wouldn't talk back to me with michael jordan he's a competitor he's going to go back at me that is easier for me to deny him the ball and do a lot of things and he gave you 50. he didn't give me 50. you got to get your stats right baby um just a little short story about him he's the only guy when i got in the nba and i wasn't as good as i thought i was gonna be for the first two years uh i watched him and when i watched him he's a player that all kids should watch right now i might have been more athletic than he was but he did it the same way every night every night for a guy for him to only play 32 minutes come in and shoot the ball 12 times makes nine or ten of them shots shoot eight free throws and make seven of them and then have 15 assists and four steals that's the reason why he's the hardest person i ever had to guard and that's why i respect him very much [Applause] players were playing papa shot with each other and it was winter stays on well after we've been playing for a while this 12 year old kid in a wheelchair comes up to john and and wants to when it comes to the you know can i play you guys yeah you can well turns out the kid's pretty good and it's apparent that he's going to beat john john gets up and starts blocking his shot i thought wait a minute there's something wrong with this picture and then i realized there wasn't really anything wrong with it it was just a very clear definition of how competitive john stockton is one of the stories i got is this toughness uh uh we was a tournament of americas and we was in portland oregon and he did some to his leg where his leg actually wouldn't bend back out it would always flare up every night and then every once in two years actually where the pump a bone will pop out so we had training camp in uh in chicago and we're stretching as we stretch and ready to get up stock couldn't get up so he looked over at me and say so of course i knew what it was so he called the trainer over the the trainer from miami and he said look you need to pull on this really hard and it'll pop back in well this guy here wanted no liability at all so i watched as he did it himself when he went to the olympics you know he he had a broken fibula and a lot of plays it would have been a way to cop out i made the olympic team but i broke my leg or something but he continued to compete there are a lot of great players in this league but somehow they seem to get injured or miss games and john stockton you pretty much can pencil in 82 games every year you know what you're going to get it doesn't matter if he's banged up if he's sore if he's hurt you know he's going to be there you know he's going to play the minutes and you know he's going to produce you know it was he shouldn't have played a number a game and he was hurt sometimes so bad that i wouldn't even get eye contact with him in the game i just say how you doing i'm fine i'm ready to play never used excuses you know i i've seen him you know with a little nagging injury here a little injury there and right at game time i said are you ready to go yep and that has been john stockton's greatest stories if you enjoyed the video i'd really appreciate if you guys could hit that like button it really helps the channel out if you enjoyed this video and you'd like to see more be sure to hit that subscribe button and the notification button so you never miss an episode of this series comment down below which player you'd like to see next and here are two episodes of this series you might enjoy with that said i am out peace you

Channel: Nick Smith NBA

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Length: 22min 59sec (1379 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 22 2021

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[u/SactownKorean]

Actually video starts about 2 minutes in lol Holy shit

[u/EggoSlayer]

10:42 Greg Foster gets blasted in the face with an elbow when the bench clears after The Shot. I've never noticed that shit in all the times I've watched it lol.

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That was great. I thought I had heard most of these but there were a few new ones! Appreciate it!

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Watching this with my 12 year old today! This is EXACTLY how I want him to play

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