Dennis Johnson was a professional U.S. basketball player who played in the ‘National Basketball Association (NBA)’ -- the premier basketball league in North America and arguably the most popular basketball league in the world. He initially started out as a shooting guard, tasked with stealing the ball from the opposition in defense and score points for his team on the attack. Later, when he was moved into the point guard position, his defensive capabilities and decision-making abilities came to the fore thus allowing him to control the game and produce decisive plays that contributed to many game-defining moments in big matches. He combined his bulk, long leap and fast hands to block and steal the ball off his opponents whether be it in the air or ground. And combined with his intuitive reading of the game, he could initiate successful attacks or score from distance and rebounds, almost at will. It is for these reasons that past NBA greats and sports journalists alike consider him to be one of the most defensively astute and versatile players to have played in the NBA.