Gary Payton Quotes

We need the Sonics back.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

After I see in OKC, I see this is how NBA teams are. You know how you're like in a dream and you have a superpower and just don't want to open your eyes and end the dream? Oklahoma City's been like that to me.

The Cavaliers used to play at the Richfield Coliseum, and I actually went to see them when I was a little kid. Mark Price, Brad Daugherty, Larry Nance, all those guys.

Who wouldn't want to own the Lakers?

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'

I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

When the St. Louis Cardinals arrived in Arizona as the Phoenix Cardinals, I became a fan and still am today.

The Knicks, they're a very talented team.

The Spurs are a great organization.

The Suns keep great point guards here.

I grew up watching Kobe and all these other dudes, but I was in love with that Oklahoma City Thunder team with James Harden, Russell Westbrook, and Kevin Durant.

The Knicks are a special team.

I'm obviously very grateful to play for a sports organization like the Boston Celtics.

I think the Lakers are a legacy franchise. Players know when they come here, this is the ultimate platform.

You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

The Orlando Magic is a great organization.

I don't know when, or how, but I feel it: Basketball will come back to Seattle.

I have some really great memories with the Clippers organization.

We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state

Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer to a Playboy bunny this year but for the last few years these guys are like, 'We have a really good team!' And I say, 'You really think that?' And I say, 'No, they don't.' But this is the best team they've had in a while.

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

I've been blessed to be in the NBA.