Gary Payton

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We got a Top 75 player on Knuckleheads this week as The Glove aka Gary Payton joins Q and D. Bringing the energy per usual, GP shares his experiences growing up in the Bay, going to Oregon State, and getting to the league. He also looks back on putting the Sonics on the map with Shawn Kemp and what it was like to win DPOY and a gold medal all in the same year. The Hall of Famer never holds back — Tune in! Putting Oregon State on the map (7:29) Teaming up with Shawn Kemp on the Seattle Sonics (15:40) Being the first guard to win Defensive Player of the Year (19:09) 1996 Olympics, Dream Team II (21:07) Going up against MJ in the NBA Finals (23:34) Winning the NBA Finals with Miami in 2006 (25:44) Not letting OKC retire his #20 jersey (37:56) About Our Hosts: NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls. Other places to find Knuckleheads: Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Instagram Follow on Facebook

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0:00.0	First of, we appreciate you coming on the show.
0:03.5	Oh, gee.
0:05.5	You know, some of the people that embraced us soon as we got to the league was, you know,
0:11.0	DeKimbe, Lonzo Morning, Patrick Yuen, and it was definitely you, you know, going to Seattle
0:17.5	playing in a celebrity game.
0:19.1	As soon as we got to the league, it was like we was already family. going to Seattle playing in a celebrity game.
0:23.9	As soon as we got to the league, it was like we was already family.
0:27.9	Like, the way you talked to us and made us feel comfortable, even though you was talking shit, but that's what we was used to going up.
0:31.7	So it was like, oh, no, he got love for us.
0:33.8	It wasn't the other way around, but we appreciate you coming and rock with us.
0:37.7	You know, long time of coming. Last time we talked to you, it was the first time we ever
0:42.2	started this podcast.
0:44.3	AI and all of us, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely, it's a pleasure to get you down here
0:49.6	in the Bay Area, hometown, so thank you. Well, I just want to tell y'all, man, I'm proud of y'all, man.
0:55.0	You know, you saying that, I've seen something in you, too.
0:58.7	You know what I'm saying?
0:59.5	I knew that y'all both was going to be that one, you know what I'm saying?
1:02.8	So it was embraced me.
1:04.2	And then especially when I asked y'all to come to my celebrity game, man.
1:07.9	And y'all was rooks, man. Y'all was y'all's y'all. Playing hard as hell.
1:12.5	Y'all was going at the celebrity game, but I said that's good.
1:15.8	But I just want to congratulate both of y'all.
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