Defensive Game
Elite defensive specialist and one of the best defensive guards in the NBA. Generates steals at a top-tier rate with quickness, anticipation, and willingness to take charges. All-Defensive Team caliber.
Parcours de Carrière
Milwaukee Bucks
2016-2017
Gary Dwayne Payton II is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a junior and senior playing college basketball for the Oregon State Beavers, Payton was named first-team All-Pac-12 as well as Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year. He won his first NBA championship with the Warriors in 2022.
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Washington Wizards
2017-2018
Golden State Warriors
2018-2020
Portland Trail Blazers
2020-2021
Golden State Warriors
2021-2023
Portland Trail Blazers
2023-2024
Golden State Warriors
2024-present
Agent du Joueur
2024-25 season · Voir le contrat
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Defensive Game
Elite defensive specialist and one of the best defensive guards in the NBA. Generates steals at a top-tier rate with quickness, anticipation, and willingness to take charges. All-Defensive Team caliber.
Intangibles
Extremely high basketball IQ bred from elite family lineage and years of professional persistence. His anticipation of passing lanes and reading ball-handlers' weaknesses is elite-level.
Vie Personnelle et Famille
Situation
Married
Parents & Frères et sœurs
En Dehors du Terrain
Community programs in Oakland connecting to his father's legacy
Support for youth sports in the Pacific Northwest
Le Saviez-vous ?
His father Gary Payton is considered one of the five greatest defensive players in NBA history — a Hall of Famer who earned the nickname 'The Glove' for his suffocating man-to-man coverage and won Defensive Player of the Year in 1996.
Payton II went undrafted in 2016 and spent years bouncing through the G League and short contracts before emerging as one of the best defensive guards in the NBA — one of the most remarkable late-bloomer stories in recent basketball history.
His 2021-22 shooting efficiency was remarkable: 69.5% on two-point attempts, one of the highest marks in the entire NBA, reflecting his philosophy of only attempting shots he can genuinely convert.
He has played for multiple NBA franchises across his career, but has always found his ceiling in Golden State's championship-caliber culture where defensive excellence is celebrated.
Distinctions de Carrière
NBA Champion (2022)
NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2022)
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