Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 10:40 am  |  63 responses

For Old Time’s Sake: Gary Payton

THE GLOVE is undoubtedly one of the greatest guards and defensive players of all time. He had an incredible post game for a point guard, often abusing his smaller PG counterparts and was fearless on both ends of the court. He and Shawn Kemp led the Sonics to the ’96 Finals and represented the last great generation of pro hoops in Seattle. Payton was the NBA DPOY in ’96, a 9x All Star, 9x All-Defensive First team, and won a title with Miami in 2006. He was also one of the game’s greatest/most irritating trash talkers and with this came the third-most technical fouls in NBA history. Payton holds 2 Olympic Gold Medals, is 3rd on the all-time NBA steals list, and the only player in NBA history with 20k points, 5k boards, 8k assists, and 2k steals. I could go on all day about GP. Enjoy the vid by Kblaze.

@Schneezy

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  • http://www.kb24.com The Seed

    @JTaylor You are right, GP play was off and he was one of the reasons that lost and Kemp did do his thing. As a Bulls fan back then, I thought the Sonics were going to win 4 straight games, because like the @HAMMER said, I have never seen the BULLS with MJ get beat that bad. That’s why I feel the Sonics underachieved @HAMMER. Don’t get me started on the Jazz, they lost to the Bulls twice, But I would bet on that team against any team that have won the NBA Finals since 1998, except a couple of the Lakers teams, 05 Spurs team and 08 Boston team. BOOK IT!!!

  • hammer

    N no way am I lessening the jazz. The jazz were equal 2 the bulls n many ways and n my mind posed more of a threat than any team bulls faced n the finals,especially 98. That year bulls had a tuff,grueling 7 gm ecf showdown w/indi. Bulls were very fortunate 2 have home court advantage n that series. Both teams won all their home gms. So the bulls were already exhausted heading n2 the finals against the jazz. But one thing that was motivation 4 chi was that it was gonna b their last gms 2gether. So they felt that they HAD 2 win it all. They played just good enuff 2 hold off the jazz

  • Holy Karron

    Madd love for GP him and Kemp was on point back in the 90′s

  • YourMaster

    Worst song I’ve ever heard.

  • JTaylor21

    @The seed, I also don’t know why it took so long for George Karl to put GP on MJ instead of waiting to about the 3rd game. MJ had one of the worst 4 gms stretch of his playoff career with GP guarding him and would’ve at least given the sonics are better chance of winning. I’m not saying that GP could have shutdown MJ before all the MJ nutjobs start attacking me but if anyone can at least contain MJ it’s GP.

  • http://www.twitter.com/TheDiesel Anton

    One of my favorite players ever. Don’t forget that clutch jumper in Miami, too.

  • arjae828

    love how dude tried to hit GP w/ the in and out and GP straight laughed at him ! also, move he put on cuttino mobley in the post was sick. and the up and under then finish over rodman w/ the left. crazy !!!

  • arjae828

    another thing…a lot of these fots’s got ppl schoolin’ mj as the main highlight. thas how you know m.j. was the man. people pull a move off on him and they get a name.

  • http://thetroyblog.com Teddy-the-Bear

    I’m looking forward to reading Allenp’s piece.
    Also, the Glove is tight, more props Schneez..

  • hammer

    @ yourmaster. I’m pretty sure there r countless songs that 1 can say r the worst ever. Not the pharcyde tho if u appreciate TRU hip hop instead of this crap that’s out 2day

  • MrVanEk

    I was hoping the reignman would be at the end of most assist, but vin baker?
    Shoot out to kendall gills sonic career..

  • http://twitter.com/i_am_flash Flash

    Dude visited Manila (Phils) a couple weeks back and I got to meet up with my childhood hoop hero. He was not only a fierce competitor, but a funny, cool dude off the hardwood. Here’s a video of me & GP. The Glove showed love. You are the best GP!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdvz3v8u1TA

  • http://bedotwater.bandcamp.com BE.water

    GP are you with me!!!

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