Nobody was off-limits when Gary Payton talked trash, including Michael Jordan. However, he found out that Jordan could dish out some verbal punishment of his own, especially when it's about putting a ...

Gary Payton was one of the NBA's fiercest defenders. Despite standing at 6'4", he played with a heart bigger than his size and frustrated many of the game's most potent scorers during his heyday in ...

"Everybody asks me that, and they say, 'Why not Michael Jordan?'" - Gary Payton on why he always said John Stockton was his toughest matchup originally appeared on Basketball Network. Gary Payton was ...

When Michael Jordan joined the Chicago Bulls, it was a franchise in need of desperate life. They were perennial losers with even Chicago fans not holding their hopes high up. Jordan changed that, ...

John Salley responded to Gary Payton’s famous claim that he could have stopped Michael Jordan in the NBA Finals. Salley didn’t hold back, calling the idea pure nonsense. He argued that no one could ...