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You’re not watching? John Stockton: No, it isn't like I'm saying, "I'm not going to watch that." Life’s busy. I've got kids, I've got grandkids—they're playing sports. I'd rather watch that. So, it's not a negative thing like that. However, things that I see are—yeah, I do think it’s softer. You have guys that can take 20 days off, you know, what they call load management. I mean, could you imagine your dad coming home saying, "I'm gonna take a few weeks off work"? You know—who's going to feed us then? You know what I’m saying? These guys do it, and they’re supposed to be examples. And the league allows it.

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John Stockton: I was in an article and I said—I think at the time I said—there were 200 athletes dead on the field recently, immediately after being vaccinated. And they said that’s, you know, fact-checked. Fact-check comes on and says, “No, John’s lying about this.” I was, maybe, because it was 300 at the time. And it was well over a thousand before 2023. I had the names of them. I had their obits. I had all these things so I could back it up to anybody that wanted to see it. But yeah, it’s definitely a correlation. And then Ed Dowd did the book Cause Unknown. It was a bestseller—little book, only takes you about 45 minutes to read it. Same thing: pictures, faces of kids, of athletes. And these are all guys that were vaccinated and within 48 hours—gone.

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John Stockton: Well, yeah. I mean, first of all—mainstream media—I mean, that’s why your stuff’s so valuable, what you’re doing. You can’t get the truth from mainstream media. You get on the news and… stuff that I— they’re still saying the vaccines are safe. They’re still saying they’re effective. They’re saying that—safe and effective. I mean, we have 2,000 athletes dropping dead on a field. I mean, how much more proof do you need? It only takes one.

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John Stockton: So it's just: throw it out. There's less strategy, there's less physicality. The safety—again, kind of back to the COVID thing—safety is more important than the game. And I—I don’t know. I think the game’s first. I think people are looking for gladiators out there. They want you to go to war. They want to see you do what they can’t do—not go out there and shake hands and hug each other and shoot jumpers.

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Despite earning more than $65 million from 1990 onward, Stockton attributes his stability not to his income, but to how carefully he managed his money. “It doesn’t take much when the money is that big,” Stockton said on The Maverick Approach podcast. “If you don’t pay your taxes one year, penalties and interest eat it up in a heartbeat. Then you get married and divorced — that cuts it in half. You buy things that don’t continue to have value, like a bunch of cars or jewelry. All of a sudden, everything jumps on you. And to repay those kinds of debts? Can't happen. You can't then go back to normal life when you're not making the $50 million a year and pay those penalties. It could happen easier than you think. But it's good reason to have your head on your shoulders and pay attention," he added.

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Stockton appeared on “The Ultimate Assist” podcast and was asked if he still kept up with how the Jazz are doing. The legendary guard said he did not pay close attention, and was not exactly complimentary of the organization. “I haven’t been tracking them. I know that there doesn’t seem to be a mission to win,” Stockton said. “If that’s true, that’s frustrating, because I think that culture is so hard to come by. I knew how hard it was for the Utah Jazz to become a winning organization to begin with, and I came in on the tail end of that. I got to build from that with my teammates.

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But Jefferson picked ‘The Mailman,’ and his reasoning was rooted in what he called Malone’s “level of professionalism.” “The reason why I would pick Karl Malone over Charles is because of the level of professionalism that Karl Malone always approached,” Jefferson said on his Road Trippin’ pod. “Karl Malone also had a top-five point guard — wherever you want to rank him — in John Stockton next to him.” “So when I look at Karl Malone, with Charles when he was in Philly, he was in and out of shape, and then he would, you know, some of his off-the-court partying that we knew about…I’m saying Charles was a rebel. He’s not a role model. So I’m not taking shots at him. But I’m saying, when you look at a guy like Karl Malone, who trained for eight hours a day, he played for 19 years. He was second in scoring. And if his body would have held up, he probably would have been the all-time leading scorer.”

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Layden went 277-294 during the regular season as the Jazz’s head coach. Under Layden, Utah made the playoffs five times, reaching the conference semifinals three times. One of his greatest accomplishments as an NBA executive with the Jazz was drafting Hall of Famers John Stockton and Karl Malone in back-to-back years, turning the franchise into a perennial playoff contender and eventually leading the Jazz to the NBA Finals in 1997 and 1998.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar: Most makes to tie or take the lead in the last 90 seconds of the 4th or OT in a single postseason (since 1997): Tyrese Haliburton - 5 this year LeBron James – 5 in 2018 Kevin Durant – 5 in 2012 Dirk Nowitzki – 5 in 2011 Ray Allen - 5 in 2009 Ben Gordon – 5 in 2009 John Stockton – 5 in 1997

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Jorge Sierra: Nikola Jokic passed John Stockton in playoff points for No. 47 all-time. He also moved ahead of Dale Davis in rebounds for No. 45 in playoffs history.

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Haywood believes their records are not unbreakable — especially with how the game has changed. Surveying the field of young superstars, he offered some names to watch: “I still like Luka [Dončić] to break John Stockton’s passing record,” said Haywood. “And Luka might be up there to break LeBron’s 40,000 because he’s starting so early in the game so, that’s one. Joker for scoring, but not assists. You know if Ja Morant would put his mind to it and just become an assist maker, he could easily do it, you know? Because he has the time and he has the experience — he can score, but he can also make the passes as well. I like Kyrie Irving too.”

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Jorge Sierra: LeBron James tied Kevin McHale in playoff blocks and is now No. 9 in NBA history. Also: Jayson Tatum (age 27) passed Ray Allen in scoring for No. 38 all-time. Jaylen Brown tied John Stockton at No. 46.

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Jorge Sierra: Only nine players have been to the playoffs more times than James Harden: Karl Malone, John Stockton, Tim Duncan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James, Clifford Robinson, Tony Parker, Shaquille O'Neal, Jason Kidd

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Andy Larsen: Keyonte George became the 12th Jazz player ever to play all 48 minutes of a regulation game and the first since 1992 (John Stockton).

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