For many American college players who just missed the cut for the NBA, a career in Europe was a viable alternative. It’s something Stockton says he was considering too, as after college he didn’t believe he would be picked to play in the NBA. “I was fully planning on going to Europe. As early as a month before the NBA draft I wasn’t anticipating being picked and all of a sudden I’m picked up by Utah and the rest for me is history. But if that hadn’t have worked out, I was fully planning on going overseas to play basketball but I hadn’t selected where.”