Comparing Players From Different Eras

It is difficult to compare athletes from different eras. However, when John Stockton played for the Utah Jazz, he looked right out of a black-and-white newsreel from the 1950's - small, slow, couldn't jump, couldn't shoot particularly well. Yet he became one of the most proficient point guards in modern NBA history; a 1990's player in Eisenhower-era packaging. If scientists were to design a study to see if old-time athletes could compete today, the John Stockton model might be a good case study.