Neither, the main reason is that Stockton can be called great like Malone.
Malone and Stockton got together in 85-86, and the two improved and grew together in the league, and finally reached their 11th season together, and they broke out of the West for two consecutive years after playing the pick-and-roll combination to the extreme. It's a pity that they ran into the greatest team in history, the Bulls, and losing such a Finals is understandable to the whole world, because a person's fate requires not only their own efforts, but also the journey of history.
Rationally and objectively speaking, why Maddie was not selected as one of the top 75 superstars, because in the words of Lao Liang in the past, although he is a very good scorer, he is too far from greatness, and his influence on the game and his role on the court are not as great as you think.
After all, the eyes of the masses are not blind mice, what is the influence of a person or a group on the game, the more people who know the ball, the more they can see it, and these people also understand that the influence on the game is not only reflected in the data such as scoring, but also activates the appeal of the whole team to participate in the offense and defense, and whether it activates the appeal of teammates to fight for the championship with iron-blooded discipline. Obviously, Stockton does, and Maddie doesn't.
Of course, one person and one city is also Stockton's bargaining chip for the top 75, and basketball in that era emphasized confrontation and purity, and people's hearts were more pure. Mom, how is it like now? The current NBA is a personal show, and the individual show is the result of commercialization, and the NBA is following the old path of football in Europe's top five leagues——— making money all day long, turning the game into a personal show, which also makes the sport lose its own purity.
So if you're a pure basketball mini, it's hard to get a liking to today's NBA game, lots of three-pointers, body whistles, and layups, no mid-range shooting and the tough confrontation between man and man on the inside, and less of the mental stuff of a team keeping the lineup after a playoff loss to try revenge. The Heat are doing a great job, and I thought the Bucks could do the same, but their boss has been messing around with TM for the past year.