![]() Payton revealed in an interview that there is no line when it comes to trash talking. ![]() Source: 95.7 FM The Game 4) Payton Is Willing to Get Personal – GP’s Trash Talk in His Own Words … I had like 19 points and he was still on the bench and I was still talking.” “… I was talking real bad and he doesn’t real play that much in the preseason. He said don’t forget I remembered about preseason and what you did and he had 35 on me.” When it came to the season Michael Jordan remembered and at the first tip ball he said, ‘hey, I got the young fella’. And I had to go against Michael Jordan and had a good game. Source: ESPN 4) Payton vs Michael Jordan AgainĪs a rookie in his first preseason game Payton says he talked trash to Jordan, too, while MJ rested on the bench. We were going back and forth with the ‘f- you.'” And then Ron Harper got into it, Scottie Pippen got into it, Phil got into it. It looks like Payton is about to drop an F-bomb … and according to his recollections, that’s probably a safe bet. Source: Seattle Times 3) “Fuck You” – Payton vs the Bulls in the Finalsĭo a Google image search for Gary Payton, and one of the earliest and most frequent pictures you’ll see is of him jawing at Michael Jordan in the middle of the 1996 NBA Finals (the image at the top of this post). As soon as I do something good, they’re going to shut up.” If somebody talks to me from the crowd, I can talk back because I can back it up. ![]() “I started talking back, and it was like thousands against just Gary – who’s going to win?” Payton says. He maintained a running verbal feud with Bear fans during visits to Berkeley. “Get someone out here who can guard me!” he screamed at the Cardinal bench when Stanford’s physical tactics “got under my skin” last year. With such impunity, Payton was his trash-talkingest best with the homeys in the Bay – Cal and Stanford. Payton was not to his relief, Pac-10 officials never invoked a code of silence against him. The cheerleader, who’d invoked the inner-city fighting words, “hookhead,” against Payton, had to be restrained. Source: Open Court 2) “Get Someone Out Here Who Can Guard Me” – Payton vs StanfordĪs a freshman, Payton hit a male Oregon cheerleader between the eyes with a wad of gum. If he saw you in the mall…”remember that time I crossed you up big fella and I gave you that thang and you almost pulled your arm out of the socket…you can’t guard me boy, I’m a Hall of Famer, I’m first ballot boy, I’m first ballot!” “The craziest thing about GP on the court, he was like that off the court. “I played with GP and I played against GP, he just didn’t care,” Shaq once said on NBA Open Court. Shaq has both played against and Gary Payton, so has a uniques perspective. Here are 17 of the best Gary Payton trash talking stories we’ve compiled! 1) “I’m a Hall Of Famer, I’m First Ballot!” – Gary Payton vs Shaq Someplace totally quiet.”Īnd like that journalist, Phil Taylor said: ‘He wasn’t the first player to talk smack, but he was one of the cockiest and most creative, and - credit him or blame him for this - he helped make trash-talking an expected, and largely accepted, part of the pro game.’ Michael Cage, who played with Payton in Seattle, once said to a SI journalist on playing with Payton: “You just want to go find a library or something. While MJ and Larry Bird talked a lot, none of them took it as far as Gary Payton – who some might argue took it too far.Įven Payton’s teammates were sometimes overwhelmed by his verbiage. ![]() ![]() We’ve already looked over Michael Jordan’s best trash talk, and then Larry Bird’s trash talking, so now it is time to look at some of Gary Payton’s trash talking. The one name that comes up more than any others when talking about the greatest trash talkers in NBA history, is undoubtedly Gary Payton, aka Gee Pee, aka the Glove. ![]()
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