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February 29, 2004
AWW... THE SPOILED WIDDLE RICH BASKETBALL PWAYER IS FWUSTWATED
Remember how everyone warned during the offseason that the Lakers would have trouble fitting four Hall of Fame egos into one lockerroom? Well, Gary Payton is the first one to crack. Payton's decided that he's not getting the ball enough, and so he wants to leave Los Angeles. Sort of puts the lie to all the crap he fed everyone about just wanting to win, huh? For Gary Payton, it's not about winning. It's about him. All you need to know about Gary Payton can be summarized in his assessment of Phil Jackson's offense.
Asked what he wanted to do in the offense, Payton said, "I need to be coming off picks, when people go at us with pick and rolls, screening, stuff like that, and point guards do that, we should come back and do the same thing with them. But we basically run the triangle, [Jackson] has won championships with it, he's going to stick with it, and he's the coach."
In other words... even though Phil Jackson has won 9 NBA titles as a coach, Gary Payton thinks things would work better if he got the ball more. Even though Jackson's offense works, Gary Payton is unhappy, because he's not the star of the show.
And then some wonder why people no longer look up to athletes?
