Mike Kahn writes about the point guard that is now 40 years young.

Eighteen years and more than 1,400 NBA regular-season games later, John Stockton remembers the first one vividly. Not for what happened, but for what didn't.

As the slight little rookie point guard of the Utah Jazz on opening night in Seattle, there were plenty of friends and family around given his northwest roots from Spokane and Gonzaga University. So when the Jazz were getting battered by the Sonics, out came starting point guard Rickey Green, in came the familiar rookie, and the Jazz dramatically cut into the lead.