Gary Payton

During a difficult season for the L.A. Lakers, the chanting Staples Center crowd has pleaded with Lakers management to, “Bring back Phil!” While I admire Jackson as a coach, probably as much as anyone, you don’t have to fly to Montana to figure out why he won’t come back to the Lakers, not this season. [...]

March 20, 2012 – R.S. De France The Los Angeles Lakers are quicker and younger at point guard with Ramon Sessions, but without Derek Fisher, can they still compete for a title? It was not just another day in Laker history when Derek Fisher was traded, not for Kobe Bryant, and not for the fans. [...]

March 12, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors We’ve seen some odd tattoos of NBA players over the years. But it’s not often we have seen a female tattoo herself with a massive image of their favorite player. In this case the inspiration was surefire HOF’er Gary Payton. A friend of the girl with the tattoo [...]

January 2, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors When thinking about the NBA in the 90’s, you think about the golden era. The game was filled with rivalries and future Hall of Famers and Commissioner Stern was on his high horse. [...]

November 12, 2008 – Dr. Dime In the NBA TV broadcast analysis of the Lakers/Dallas game tonight, Gary Payton made some pretty bold statements about Rajon Rondo and his place on the Championship Celtics last season. Payton essentially implied that Rondo didn’t deserve his championship ring, that he just was lucky to be on a [...]

August 7, 2008 – Dr. Browntorious When it was rumored last week that Shawn Kemp aka ‘The Reign Man’ was coming out of retirement to play professionally in Italy I almost wet my pants. Along with the other high fliers of the day; such as Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkens, Spud Webb, etc., growing up Shawn [...]