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Game state source: whynba · Retrieved Oct 9, 5:36 pm EDTNBA legend. Named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Biography, honors and career statistics below.
John Stockton
Career at a glance
John Stockton played 19 NBA regular seasons between 1984 and 2003, appearing in 1,504 games and averaging 13.1 points, 2.7 rebounds and 10.5 assists per game. He spent his whole career with Utah (1984–03, 1,504 games). His best scoring season was 1989–90 with Utah: 17.2 points per game over 78 games.
The season table marks him as the league leader in assists 8 times, steals twice. In the playoffs he appeared in 19 postseason runs (182 games, 13.4 points per game). Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 19,700 regular-season points (an estimate from per-game figures, not an official total).
Among the 404 players with at least 200 NBA games profiled on whynba, Stockton ranks No. 2 in assists per game.
whynba analysis of the season-by-season statistics below (Wikipedia revision, CC BY-SA 4.0). Totals are estimates from per-game averages.
About John Stockton
John Houston Stockton (born March 26, 1962) is an American former professional basketball player. Regarded as one of the greatest point guards of all time, he spent his entire NBA career (1984–2003) with the Utah Jazz. The team made the playoffs in each of his 19 seasons. In 1997 and again in 1998, Stockton and his longtime teammate Karl Malone led the Jazz to the NBA Finals; each time, the team was defeated in six games by the Chicago Bulls. Stockton is a ten-time NBA All-Star and holds the NBA records for most career assists and steals by wide margins.
In 1996, Stockton was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history. In 2009, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as an individual, and again in 2010 as a member of the 1992 United States Olympic basketball team. In October 2021, Stockton was again honored as one of the league's greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
- Born
- March 26, 1962 (age 64) Spokane, Washington, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
- Listed weight
- 175 lb (79 kg)
- Position
- Point guard
- High school
- Gonzaga Prep (Spokane, Washington)
- College
- Gonzaga (1980–1984)
- NBA draft
- 1984: 1st round, 16th overall pick
- Playing career
- 1984–2003
Career highlights and awards
- 10× NBA All-Star (1989–1997, 2000)
- NBA All-Star Game co-MVP (1993)
- 2× All-NBA First Team (1994, 1995)
- 6× All-NBA Second Team (1988–1990, 1992, 1993, 1996)
- 3x All-NBA Third Team (1991, 1997, 1999)
- 5× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1989, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997)
- 9× NBA assists leader (1988–1996)
- 2× NBA steals leader (1989, 1992)
- NBA anniversary team (50th, 75th)
- No. 12 retired by Utah Jazz
- WCAC Player of the Year (1984)
- 2× First-team All-WCAC (1983, 1984)
- No. 12 retired by Gonzaga Bulldogs
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984–85 | Utah | 82 | 5 | 18.2 | .471 | .182 | .736 | 1.3 | 5.1 | 1.3 | .1 | 5.6 |
| 1985–86 | Utah | 82 | 38 | 23.6 | .489 | .133 | .839 | 2.2 | 7.4 | 1.9 | .1 | 7.7 |
| 1986–87 | Utah | 82 | 2 | 22.7 | .499 | .179 | .782 | 1.8 | 8.2 | 2.2 | .2 | 7.9 |
| 1987–88 | Utah | 82 | 79 | 34.7 | .574 | .358 | .840 | 2.9 | 13.8* | 3.0 | .2 | 14.7 |
| 1988–89 | Utah | 82 | 82 | 38.7 | .538 | .242 | .863 | 3.0 | 13.6* | 3.2* | .2 | 17.1 |
| 1989–90 | Utah | 78 | 78 | 37.4 | .514 | .416 | .819 | 2.6 | 14.5‡ | 2.7 | .2 | 17.2 |
| 1990–91 | Utah | 82 | 82 | 37.8 | .507 | .345 | .836 | 2.9 | 14.2* | 2.9 | .2 | 17.2 |
| 1991–92 | Utah | 82 | 82 | 36.6 | .482 | .407 | .842 | 3.3 | 13.7* | 3.0* | .3 | 15.8 |
| 1992–93 | Utah | 82 | 82 | 34.9 | .486 | .385 | .798 | 2.9 | 12.0* | 2.4 | .3 | 15.1 |
| 1993–94 | Utah | 82 | 82 | 36.2 | .528 | .322 | .805 | 3.1 | 12.6* | 2.4 | .3 | 15.1 |
| 1994–95 | Utah | 82* | 82* | 35.0 | .542 | .449 | .804 | 3.1 | 12.3* | 2.4 | .3 | 14.7 |
| 1995–96 | Utah | 82 | 82* | 35.5 | .538 | .422 | .830 | 2.8 | 11.2* | 1.7 | .2 | 14.7 |
| 1996–97 | Utah | 82 | 82* | 35.3 | .548 | .422 | .846 | 2.8 | 10.5 | 2.0 | .2 | 14.4 |
| 1997–98 | Utah | 64 | 64 | 29.0 | .528 | .429 | .827 | 2.6 | 8.5 | 1.4 | .2 | 12.0 |
| 1998–99 | Utah | 50* | 50* | 28.2 | .488 | .320 | .811 | 2.9 | 7.5 | 1.6 | .3 | 11.1 |
| 1999–00 | Utah | 82 | 82* | 29.7 | .501 | .355 | .860 | 2.6 | 8.6 | 1.7 | .2 | 12.1 |
| 2000–01 | Utah | 82 | 82* | 29.1 | .504 | .462 | .817 | 2.8 | 8.7 | 1.6 | .3 | 11.5 |
| 2001–02 | Utah | 82 | 82 | 31.3 | .517 | .321 | .857 | 3.2 | 8.2 | 1.9 | .3 | 13.4 |
| 2002–03 | Utah | 82 | 82* | 27.7 | .483 | .363 | .826 | 2.5 | 7.7 | 1.7 | .2 | 10.8 |
| Career | 1,504 | 1,300 | 31.8 | .515 | .384 | .826 | 2.7 | 10.5 | 2.2 | .2 | 13.1 | |
| All-Star | 10 | 5 | 19.7 | .530 | .333 | .667 | 1.7 | 7.1 | 1.6 | .1 | 8.1 |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Utah | 10 | 0 | 18.6 | .467 | .000 | .743 | 2.8 | 4.3 | 1.1 | .2 | 6.8 |
| 1986 | Utah | 4 | 0 | 14.3 | .529 | 1.000 | .889 | 1.5 | 3.5 | 1.3 | .0 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | Utah | 5 | 2 | 31.4 | .621 | .800 | .729 | 2.2 | 8.0 | 3.0 | .2 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | Utah | 11 | 11 | 43.5 | .507 | .286 | .824 | 4.1 | 14.8 | 3.4 | .3 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | Utah | 3 | 3 | 46.3 | .508 | .750 | .905 | 3.3 | 13.7 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 27.3 |
| 1990 | Utah | 5 | 5 | 38.8 | .420 | .077 | .800 | 3.2 | 15.0 | 1.2 | .0 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | Utah | 9 | 9 | 41.4 | .537 | .407 | .841 | 4.7 | 13.8 | 2.2 | .2 | 18.2 |
| 1992 | Utah | 16 | 16 | 38.9 | .423 | .310 | .833 | 2.9 | 13.6 | 2.1 | .3 | 14.8 |
| 1993 | Utah | 5 | 5 | 38.6 | .451 | .385 | .833 | 2.4 | 11.0 | 2.4 | .0 | 13.2 |
| 1994 | Utah | 16 | 16 | 37.3 | .456 | .167 | .810 | 3.3 | 9.8 | 1.7 | .5 | 14.4 |
| 1995 | Utah | 5 | 5 | 38.6 | .459 | .400 | .765 | 3.4 | 10.2 | 1.4 | .2 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | Utah | 18 | 18 | 37.7 | .446 | .289 | .814 | 3.2 | 10.8 | 1.6 | .4 | 11.1 |
| 1997 | Utah | 20 | 20 | 37.0 | .521 | .380 | .856 | 3.9 | 9.6 | 1.7 | .3 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | Utah | 20 | 20 | 29.8 | .494 | .346 | .718 | 3.0 | 7.8 | 1.6 | .2 | 11.1 |
| 1999 | Utah | 11 | 11 | 32.0 | .400 | .333 | .739 | 3.3 | 8.4 | 1.6 | .1 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | Utah | 10 | 10 | 35.0 | .461 | .389 | .767 | 3.0 | 10.3 | 1.3 | .2 | 11.2 |
| 2001 | Utah | 5 | 5 | 37.2 | .459 | .000 | .714 | 5.6 | 11.4 | 2.0 | .6 | 9.8 |
| 2002 | Utah | 4 | 4 | 35.3 | .450 | .286 | .923 | 4.0 | 10.0 | 2.8 | .3 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | Utah | 5 | 5 | 29.8 | .462 | .000 | 1.000 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 1.6 | .2 | 11.2 |
| Career | 182 | 165 | 35.2 | .473 | .326 | .810 | 3.3 | 10.1 | 1.9 | .3 | 13.4 |
Per-game averages. † won an NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ NBA record (as marked).
Profile observation date unavailable.
- Height
- 6′ 1″
- Weight
- 175 lb
- Position
- Point guard
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- 1984
- Draft pick
- Round 1 · Pick 16
Height, Weight, Position, Country, Draft year, Draft pick: blank in the NBA.com profile, filled from the Wikipedia infobox credited in the About section above.
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