The strange thing is that it could end here, of all places. In a perfect world, John Stockton is on the floor of the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, running that last bruising cut off that last welt-inducing screen, getting down along the right baseline, going up for the classic Stockton jumper in those classic Stockton basketball shorts, the ones that went out of style about the time Bill Clinton blew a saxophone on "The Arsenio Hall Show."