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Stockton work no slam-dunk
Sandy sculptor has labored over the tiniest detail
"He was really good," says Challis. "I expected him to be anxious, to want to get this over with. He was funny. He joked quite a bit. He was very relaxed. He said take whatever time you need."
Eight months later, the statue of the Jazz's great point guard the original clay model of the one that will eventually stand outside the Delta Center in bronze is taking shape with a certain degree of secrecy. The Stockton statue is posed as fans remember him, passing the ball. What else?
In a tiny studio in an upstairs room of a large house in Sandy, the statue has almost come to life under the hands of Challis, a man who used to make stairways for a living and was a neighbor to Jazz owner Larry Miller.
"We'd like him to be retired first," says Challis. "Larry wants each of them to have his moment in the sun."
Opportunity of a lifetime
Challis went to painstaking efforts for accuracy and detail on the Stockton statue, which is why he met Stockton in the gym and ordered hundreds of photos to be taken. He tried to set up a similar meeting with Malone, but his request was ignored.
Once he got Stockton in the gym, he asked him to pose, "but he didn't do a good job of posing. It didn't look natural. He's not used to holding a position." So he had him move and play and even asked Stockton to direct his passes to him.
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