Each team’s best NBA Jam duo of all time

Best NBA Jam duo for Utah Jazz: Karl Malone + John Stockton

Peanut butter and jelly is an iconic pairing, even if it is well-known and not exciting. Nearly every kid grows up eating “PB&J” for lunch. John Stockton and Karl Malone are the PB&J of the NBA: repetitive, boring, something we are used to. Even so, their pairing won countless basketball games over nearly two decades, including two trips to the NBA Finals.

The only pairing from the original NBA Jam game to make this list, Stockton and Malone were the perfect tandem for the Utah Jazz. Stockton would set Malone up inside and let him go to work, occasionally taking the ball back to reset or pass to an open teammate.

Defensively, both were multi-time All-Defense material, yet they still fought every day as if it were their last. Stockton still holds the record for most career steals.

Stockton can shoot and pass. Malone can catch and score. Malone will clean the glass well and even Stockton can grab rebounds. They lack some flash, but otherwise, this duo works incredibly well together. There is something to be said for a pairing that just works, and in the case of Stockton and Malone: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”