Gonzaga to retire John Stockton's No. 12
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SPOKANE, Wash.
No Gonzaga basketball player has worn John Stockton's No. 12 since
he graduated in 1984, but the Bulldogs are only now getting around to
retiring the number.
The future Hall of Famer's number will be retired at halftime Wednesday
evening when the No. 6 Bulldogs play Portland, athletic director Mike Roth
said this week.
"This is something we've wanted to do for many years," Roth said.
"But we wanted to do it right.
"With John playing in the NBA it wasn't convenient for he and his family
to come to Spokane and be a part of a Gonzaga basketball game so we
could retire his number," Roth said.
Retired after last season, Stockton is back in his home town and can
often be spotted in the stands at Gonzaga games.
Stockton's last game as a Bulldog was on March 12, 1984.
When Dan Dickau, now with the Portland Trail Blazers, played at Gonzaga,
he wore No. 21 -- an inverted 12 -- because the school would not let him
wear Stockton's number.
Stockton, a product of Spokane's Gonzaga Prep, played for the Bulldogs
from the 1980-81 season through the 1983-84 season. He was the first
player in GU history to score 1,000 points and hand out 500 assists.
The West Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 1984, he left
Gonzaga as the all-time leader in assists with 554 and steals with 262.
He was third in career field goal percentage at 55.9 percent and
sixth in scoring with 1,340 points.
His assists record has since been eclipsed by Matt Santangelo and
Blake Stepp, but he still holds the steals record.
He also set single-season marks for assists with 201 and steals with 109,
both records coming his senior season.
He set single-game records with nine steals and tied the single-game
assists record with 13.
As a senior, he led the conference in scoring with 20.9 points per game.
He was the final player cut from the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team.
Stockton was the 16th player selected in the 1984 NBA draft, and
spent a 19-year NBA career with the Utah Jazz that will likely lead to
his election to the Hall of Fame.
He retired as the NBA's all-time leader in assists with 15,806 and
steals with 3,265. In 1996 he was named one of the "50 Greatest
Players in NBA History."
Stockton was a 10-time NBA All-Star and a member of the "Dream Team"
that won gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and
the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Stockton played 1,504 regular-season games, 182 playoff games and
holds the record for most seasons with the same franchise.
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