“I had to be famous for a reason,” John Stockton told Deseret News reporter Samuel Benson.
Stockton's ballplaying days are two decades in the past. Now, the man heralded as one of basketball’s greatest point guards ever wants to be known for something else.
There was always more than basketball to Stockton. Since his retirement in 2003, he’s lived an unassuming life in his hometown. He’s continued with an almost paranoid privacy, dating to his playing days: To avoid signature-seeking fans, he would hide in airport corners; to bypass journalists, he’d slip out of back doors. Not much changed after he stopped playing. He largely shunned the media and avoided public attention, preferring quiet time with his family, where he found purpose coaching his children’s sports teams. Pulling him back to Salt Lake City for a jersey-retirement ceremony, even, was a major feat.
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