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Nothing Personal with David Samson

Samson Sit-Down: Gary Payton (8/27)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Gary Payton joins Nothing Personal for a Samson Sit-Down. Payton talks Big 3 playoffs, what got him into coaching, becoming the coach at Lincoln University, his time with Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, and what it was like to win an NBA title with the Miami Heat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The glove, nothing personal word of the day is the glove cannot believe that I'm looking at NBA

0:58.3

champion with the Mami Heat Gary Payton who broke my heart so many times as a player,

1:04.4

because I was a Nick fan and Gary Payton was the single best defender I ever saw play,

1:09.9

and I've been watching basketball since the Iroman Roe Walt Frazier days. Gary Payton,

1:14.4

welcome to nothing personal. Thank you, David. Thanks for having me guys. It's going to be a pleasure.

1:22.2

I got to start talking about the big three because I'm fascinated by your team,

1:26.4

and I'm fascinated by the fact that you're coaching that team. I just have to ask, you're heading to

1:31.6

the Bahamas, you have a matchup against Lisa Leslie, and I think they've got Joe Johnson,

1:36.6

the MVP of the league. What are you going to do to stop them exactly? Well, we played them earlier

1:42.3

this year, David, and you know, Joe, we held Joe in check, but then he let par, he hit par,

1:48.8

go, he hit our move. They were making shots against us, and then they beat us by six. The year

1:54.3

before last year, when he got MVP, we played them in the same scenario in the playoffs like last

2:00.1

year, in the semi finals, and they beat us again in the close-batch up. And I just think that our

2:06.0

players have to just play. You know, we don't have to worry about Joe. I think we can stop him and

2:12.0

slow him down. I think if we then become more aggressive and make him, you know, react to us,

2:18.8

instead of we react to him, I think we'll be just fine. We both were six and two this year,

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