John Stockton

He and his wife, the former Nada Stepovich (daughter of Michael Anthony Stepovich, the last territorial governor of Alaska), have two daughters, Lindsay and Laura, and four sons, Houston, Michael, David and Samuel. A similar device is used in the plot of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance. His number #12 was retired by the Utah Jazz during a game on November 22, 2004. There are many instances in children's literature where a person's claim to be only a quarter of their actual age turns out to be based on counting their leap-year birthdays. The Jazz later held a retirement ceremony for him, in which the city of Salt Lake renamed the street in front of the Delta Center, where the Jazz play, "John Stockton Drive" in honor of his achievements. In non-leap years they usually celebrate their birthday on 28 February or 1 March. Stockton chose to announce his retirement with a released statement instead of the customary news conference. A person who was born on 29 February may be called a "leapling".

Since the owner of the Jazz, Larry Miller, owns several car dealerships, one could assume the creation of this dealership was part of their package for playing for the Jazz. Because men felt that put them at too great a risk, the tradition was in some places tightened to restricting female proposals to 29 February. In Salt Lake City, this is commemorated by a car dealership with the name Stockton to Malone Honda. According to a 1288 law in Scotland, fines were levied if the proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to a silk gown to soften the blow. Most of Stockton's assists resulted from passes to Malone. (Source: Evans, Ivor H, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Cassell, London, 1988). For many years, he and Malone were the Jazz's 1-2 punch. There is a tradition, said to go back to Saint Patrick and Saint Bridget in 5th century Ireland, whereby women may make marriage proposals only in leap years.

He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players In NBA History in 1996. We can't predict these changes accurately enough to be able to make a calendar that will be accurate to a day in tens of thousands of years. He was selected to the All-NBA First Team twice, the Second Team six times, the Third Team three times, and the All-Defensive Second Team five times. In particular, the second component of change depends on such things as post-glacial rebound and sea level rise due to climate change. He played with the 1992 and 1996 US Olympic Basketball teams, known as Dream Teams I and II, the first Olympic squads to feature NBA players. However, there is little point in planning a calendar so far ahead because over a timescale of tens of thousands of years the number of days in a year will change for a number of reasons, most notably:. He appeared in 10 All-Star games, and was named co-MVP of the game in 1993 with teammate Karl Malone. Others claim, erroneously, that the Gregorian calendar itself already contains a refinement of this kind [2].).

He missed only 22 games during his career, 18 of them in one season. This is based on the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the mean tropical year. He holds the NBA record for the most seasons and consecutive games played with one team, and is second in total games played, behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (The most common such proposal is to avoid leap years in years divisible by 4,000 [1]. He had five of the top six assists seasons in NBA history (the other belonging to Isiah Thomas). This suggests that the calendar needs to be improved by another refinement to the leap year rule: perhaps by avoiding leap years in years divisible by 8,000. As of 2005, he holds the NBA's records for career assists (15,806) and career steals (3,265). The accumulated difference between the Gregorian calendar and the vernal equinoctial year amounts to 1 day in about 8,000 years.

He averaged a career double-double, with 13.1 points and 10.5 assists per game. The 33-year period is not completely regular; every so often the 33-year cycle will be broken by a cycle of 29 or 37 years. Though only 6'1" in a league of giants, Stockton is considered one of the greatest players ever to play the position of point guard. The system used is more accurate and more complicated, and is based on the time of the March equinox as observed from Teheran. He was selected by the Jazz in the first round (16th pick overall) of the 1984 NBA Draft. The Iranian calendar also has a single intercalated day once in every four years, but every 33 years or so the leap years will be five years apart instead of four years apart. He then played college basketball for Gonzaga University in his hometown. It is the month in which the sun is in the same sign of the stellar zodiac on two consecutive dark moons.

Stockton was born and raised in Spokane, Washington and attended Gonzaga Preparatory School. In the Hindu calendar, which is a lunisolar calendar, the embolismic month is called adhika maas (extra month). He spent his entire career (1984-2003) as a point guard for the Utah Jazz. These postponement rules reduce the number of different combinations of year length and starting day of the week from 28 to 14, and regulate the location of certain religious holidays in relation to the Sabbath. John Houston Stockton (born March 26, 1962) is a former NBA player. The year before the postponement gets one or two extra days, and the year whose start is postponed loses one or two days. In addition, the Hebrew calendar has postponement rules that postpone the start of the year by one or two days.

According to the Metonic cycle, this is done seven times every nineteen years, specifically, in years, 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19. In the Hebrew calendar the extra month is called Adar Alef (first Adar) and is added before Adar, which then becomes Adar Sheni (second Adar). The Hebrew calendar is also lunisolar with an embolistic month. The intercalary month takes the same number as the preceding month; for example, if it follows the second month then it is simply called "leap second month".

In the Chinese calendar the leap month is added according to a complicated rule, which ensures that month 11 is always the month that contains the northern winter solstice. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so a leap year has an extra month, often called an embolismic month after the Greek word for it. This is a very good approximation to the mean tropical year, but because the vernal equinox tropical year is slightly longer, the Revised Julian calendar does not do as good a job as the Gregorian calendar of keeping the vernal equinox on or close to 21 March. This rule gives an average year length of 365.242222… days.

The first year that dates in the Revised Julian calendar will not agree with the those in the Gregorian calendar will be 2800, because it will be a leap year in the Gregorian calendar but not in the Revised Julian calendar. This rule agrees with the rule for the Gregorian calendar until 2799. The Revised Julian calendar adds an extra day to February in years divisible by 4, except for years divisible by 100 that do not leave a remainder of 200 or 600 when divided by 900. The excess of about 0.0076 days with respect to the vernal equinox year means that the vernal equinox moves a day earlier in the calendar every 130 years or so.

This rule gives an average year length of 365.25 days. The Julian calendar adds an extra day to February in years divisible by 4. The only tangible difference is felt in countries that celebrate feast days. This historical nicety is, however, in the process of being discarded: The European Union declared that, starting in 2000, 29 February rather than 24 February would be leap day, and the Roman Catholic Church also now uses 29 February as leap day.

For example, the former feast day of Saint Matthias, 24 February in ordinary years, would be 25 February in leap years. Where this custom is followed, anniversaries after the inserted day are moved in leap years. Hence the term bissextile day for 24 February in a bissextile year. The extra day was originally the second of these, but since the third century it was the first.

Since 45 BC, February in a leap year had two days called "the sixth day before the calends of March". Days were counted down (inclusively) to the next named day, so 24 February was ante diem sextum calendas martii ("the sixth day before the calends of March"). The Roman calendar originated as a lunar calendar (though from the 5th century BC it no longer followed the real moon) and named its days after three of the phases of the moon: the new moon (calends, hence "calendar"), the first quarter (nones) and the full moon (ides). The Gregorian calendar is a modification of the Julian calendar first used by the Romans.

So the Gregorian leap year rule does a good enough job. But in 8,000 years' time the length of the vernal equinox year will have changed by an amount we can't accurately predict (see below). This difference of a little over 0.0001 days means that in around 8,000 years, the calendar will be about one day behind where it should be. The reasoning behind this rule is as follows:.

Thus 1996 was a leap year whereas 1999 was not, and 1600, 2000 and 2400 are leap years but 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2100 are not. The Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, adds a 29th day to February in all years evenly divisible by 4, except for century years (those ending in -00), which receive the extra day only if they are evenly divisible by 400. . Leap years (which keep the calendar in sync with the year) should not be confused with leap seconds (which keep clock time in sync with the day).

A year which is not a leap year is called a common year. By occasionally inserting (or intercalating) an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year.

Tidal acceleration from the sun and moon slows the rotation of the earth, making the day longer. Precession of the equinoxes moves the position of the vernal equinox with respect to perihelion and so changes the length of the vernal equinoctial year. The Gregorian leap year rule gives an average year length of 365.2425 days. The vernal equinox year is currently about 365.242375 days long.

The Gregorian calendar is designed to keep the vernal equinox on or close to March 21, so that the date of Easter (celebrated on the Sunday after the 14th day of the Moon that falls on or after 21 March) remains correct with respect to the vernal equinox.