Nobody knows for sure, but it is guessed that John Stockton, one of the best passers in the history of the NBA, a point guard who had touch and timing and vision and court awareness and assist accuracy like none other, might have made a great quarterback, had he chosen football over basketball.
Ironic it is that an all-time great in a tall man’s game, a player who regularly found passing lanes nobody else saw through and around, under and over sequoias, would be thought of as a tad bit too diminutive.
But in a lot of cases, it is.