"Basketball historian Tony Parker had a sense of what he wanted to happen Saturday night at the AT&T Center. It went beyond becoming the Spurs' all-time leader in career assists, a feat he accomplished in the third quarter of the Spurs' 107-96 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.

If at all possible, Parker knew which teammate he wanted to pass to for the basket that would move him past Avery Johnson.

Just as Utah's John Stockton fed Karl Malone for the basket that moved him past Lakers great Magic Johnson as the NBA's all-time assists leader in 1995, Parker wanted Tim Duncan to be on the shooting end of the record-breaking assist Saturday.

"That's the exact feeling I had," Parker said. "Stockton to Malone, and that's what I said to Timmy: 'Come on, I want you to be the one to knock it down.'?""