Gary Payton
| Full Name : | Gary Dwayne Payton |
| Public : | Gary Payton |
| Nickname : | The Glove |
| Country : | United States (USA)  |
| DOB : | July 23, 1968 (Age 42) |
| Place : | Oakland, California |
| Height : | 6' 4" |
| Weight : | 180 lbs. |
| Sport : | Basketball - NBA |
| Team : | Retired |
| Level : | Professional |
| Status : | Superstar |
| Seattle SuperSonics |
| Point Guard |
| Jersey # 20 |
NBA Teams :
Miami Heat (2005 - 2007)
Boston Celtics (2004 - 2005)
Los Angeles Lakers (2003 - 2004)
Milwaukee Bucks (2003)
Seattle SuperSonics (1990 - 2003)
Drafted :
2nd overall pick in 1990
Seattle SuperSonics
Achievements :
2006 NBA champion
9x NBA All-Star (1994 - 1998, 2000 - 2003)
9x NBA All-Defensive Team (1993 - 2001)
9x All-NBA Team (1993 - 2001)
1995 NBA Defensive Player of the Year
Post Career Honors :
#10 on ESPN's 10 Greatest Point Guards Ever
#47 on SLAM Magazine's Top 75 NBA Players of All-Time
Records :
3rd highest in NBA Career Steals - 2445
7th highest in NBA Career Assists - 8966
(Updated July 21, 2009)
Gary Dwayne Payton is a retired professional basketball player, best known for his 12-year tenure with the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also played with the Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and Miami Heat.
Payton is regarded as one of the greatest point guard of all time. He ranked 10th in ESPN's list of 10 greatest point guard all-time (accessed 2008). During his time in Seattle, he formed a dynamic duo with Shawn Kemp and made Seattle one of the Chicago Bulls' strongest opposition in the post season during the 1990s.
Payton is the only point guard ever to win the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. He was selected to the NBA All-Defensive First Team nine times, an NBA record he shares with Michael Jordan. His tenacious defense earned him the nickname "The Glove", a moniker he acquired from an account in 1993, during which he was described as "holding Kevin Johnson like a baseball in a glove" in a Western Conference Finals game against Phoenix. NBA Hall of Famer Gail Goodrich described Payton, who was the NBA's reigning high scorer among point guards during his prime, as "complete a guard as there ever was".
Currently, Payton is a studio analyst for NBA TV and an occasional substitute analyst on The NBA on TNT. He does the Tuesday night NBA TV broadcast of NBA Gametime Live, which is titled "Fan Night, with Chris Webber and Ahmad Rashad.
He's also appeared in animated form in a series of commercials for the Sega Dreamcast video game console from 1999 - 2000.
