John Stockton

The NBA's career assist leader by a wide margin, Stockton earns his place for something the number hides: the pick-and-roll with Karl Malone, run thousands of times, with Stockton reading whether to hit the roll, the pop or the weak-side shooter. He rarely threw a spectacular pass. If you want to learn the timing of a bounce pass into the roll man, Utah's 1990s footage is the textbook.