John Stockton

Stockton appears in Driven as the emblem of a regret. The author recounts missing “the greatest moment in the Jazz’s history: John Stockton’s last-second shot in Houston that sent us to our first NBA Finals in 1997” — he was too buried in work and business details to be there. The shot anchors a longer reflection on his work-over-life tradeoff: being so consumed by specs, buildings, meetings, and obligations that he skipped the very events “other people would die for,” only realizing later “that’s where the fun stuff is.” Stockton’s buzzer-beater is the concrete loss that makes the lesson land.

Context: John Stockton (b. 1962) is a Hall of Fame point guard who spent his entire NBA career with the Utah Jazz, where he set the league’s all-time records for assists and steals.

Where this appears

• Driven — his 1997 buzzer-beater sending the Jazz to the NBA Finals is the moment the author regretfully missed, emblematic of his work-over-life tradeoff