Gary Payton accepts college basketball coaching job in Oakland: 'Our program is going to play D'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Gary Payton will be the first basketball head coach at Lincoln University.

The basketball Hall of Famer told The Undefeated's Marc Spears that he accepted the job at the Oakland university that's launching its athletic program next season. He told Spears the opportunity to start a program from the ground up in Oakland attracted him to the job.

"I don’t have to go behind anybody to try to make a program become something or keep it going," Payton told Spears. 'I can start it off with my own program with what I want to happen.

“And the reason I took it is because it’s in Oakland, California.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/wnba/gary-payton-accepts-college-basketball-coaching-job-in-oakland-our-program-is-going-to-play-d/ar-AAKIpQZ

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. That's a good reason to take a job

O-TOWN BABY!!!

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

2. I hope "The Glove" does well in his first HC job and

I am sure he will be pushing a hard-nosed, aggressive defensive approach.

[LenaBaby61]

3. Good luck to Gary ....

Loved him as a Beaver, loved him as a Super Sonic, and Loved him as a Laker, and his trash-talking was epic

He was always very intelligent about life and life situations, and very smart concerning basketball as well, and I knew he'd end up coaching someplace. So happy he's still interested in b-ball, teaching our youth and about teaching DEFENSE

I wish the glove nothing but the best.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. They Used Him, & His Trash Talk...

...to great effect in the Whoopi movie, "Eddie".
It's a short scene, but good and is classic GP trash talk.
He says his team is going to play D; ya think?