The future point guard of the Utah Jazz emerges from the training room looking like a refugee from a boy band. He is slender with wavy hair, long lashes and dark eyes. A teen girl's dream. At 6 feet, 160 pounds, Raul Lopez is as imposing as a paperboy.
This is John Stockton's replacement?
Stockton wasn't exactly imposing, either, but he was rough and tough. Beneath the choir boy face was the grit of a pit bull. Whether Lopez has that remains to be seen. For now he is merely slight and young, enough so that Gary Payton, Jason Kidd and Steve Nash must be smiling. This kid?
