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KD says trash discuss with HOF’er Payton ‘all love’

Kevin Durant and Gary Payton have some fun during a timeout (0:50) Kevin Durant and Gary Payton have fun going back and forth during a timeout. (0:50) Tim MacMahonFeb 1, 2025, 02:26 AM ET Close Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM SAN

KD says trash discuss with HOF’er Payton ‘all love’

Kevin Durant and Gary Payton have some enjoyable throughout a timeout (0:50)

Kevin Durant and Gary Payton have enjoyable going backwards and forwards throughout a timeout. (0:50)

  • Tim MacMahonFeb 1, 2025, 02:26 AM ET

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    • Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009
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    • Seems often on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM

SAN FRANCISCO — The animated verbal exchanges between Phoenix Suns celebrity Kevin Durant and Corridor of Famer Gary Payton Sr. on Friday evening had been all in good enjoyable.

“Simply speaking junk,” Payton advised ESPN’s Jorge Sedano from his second-row seat at Chase Middle after the third quarter ended with Durant and the 1995-96 defensive participant of the yr going backwards and forwards.

However Durant meant each phrase of the trash he talked to Payton, the daddy of Golden State Warriors wing Gary Payton II, through the Suns’ 130-105 victory.

“It is all the time good once I run into an older participant, particularly in the event that they performed within the ’90s, as a result of they really feel like that is the golden years of the NBA,” Durant stated. “So I attempt to allow them to know, particularly GP, I attempt to allow them to know what it will have been like in the event that they’d have been on the courtroom with me. They have a tendency to speak down on the mentality of our period’s gamers.

“G’s an ideal sport about it — one in every of my favourite gamers, any person I look as much as, received main respect for. I feel we began in the summertime with Crew USA. We had been all in the identical room with Crew USA, and the very first thing I stated to him was that he could not guard me. ‘You are too small. Them dudes that performed again within the day wasn’t near me.’ I used to be simply speaking loopy to him, so I assume we picked it up from there.”

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Durant, who scored 19 factors in 29 minutes through the win, traded trash discuss with Payton for many of the third quarter. Durant completed the quarter with a trio of 3-pointers to stretch the Suns’ result in 19. On the finish of the quarter, he made a beeline towards the nook the place Payton was sitting, however Durant was adamant he did not want a scoring outburst for fodder of their dialog.

“If I wanted to point out him that minute of basketball to let him know what I have been doing out right here … I’ve received 18 years of footage,” Durant stated with a smile. “That minute ain’t do a lot. He knew that was coming.”

Earlier than heading to the Suns’ bench, Durant walked to the block, letting Payton know that is the world of the ground Durant would use to attain on Payton.

“We’re going proper into that publish,” stated Durant, a 15-time All-Star who’s 75 factors shy of turning into the eighth member of the NBA’s 30,000-point membership. “He is too small, man. [Payton is] 6-4, probably not bodily like that. He is simply too small for me. And he is aware of that.

“However GP is a kind of gamers, you are not going to get that final phrase on him.”

Based on Durant, Payton has by no means defined how he would defend him.

“I nonetheless do not know,” Durant stated, briefly pausing earlier than getting in one other dig. “He’d most likely simply attempt to foul me, similar to his son do.”

Durant appears to be like ahead to listening to the fiery retorts from Payton, who retired the yr that Durant was drafted, the following time they run into one another.

“It is all the time good rapport with the older era,” Durant stated. “They respect me. I respect what they’ve executed. However there’s some gamers that also received that aggressive edge and need they had been nonetheless on the market and nonetheless preserve that with them in all places they go. That is GP, and I respect that about him. So any time, any likelihood I get to see him, man, we going to speak this trash till we die. It is all love.”

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