Gary Payton Discusses George Karl, Playing Defense on ‘The Starters’

Gary Payton and George Karl spent seven seasons together with the Seattle SuperSonics, so The Glove is intimately familiar with the longtime NBA coach.

On Thursday, Payton discussed some of the controversial excerpts from Karl’s upcoming book during an appearance on NBA TV’s The Starters.

One of the main points Payton touched on revolved around Karl’s controversial opinion that Carmelo Anthony and Kenyon Martin, whom he coached during his time with the Denver Nuggets, were tough to get along with because they didn’t have fathers in their lives:

I didn’t really like the way he came at Carmelo and Kenyon Martin. You don’t go into peoples’ parents and things like that. There’s a lot of people that are struggling like that out here now. I’ve been around a lot of my friends that only had…a mother, not a father. That was something that was off limits that I didn’t really like that he did.

Payton also shed light on how he and Karl confronted issues that cropped up during their shared time in the Pacific Northwest:

We bumped heads a lot. I cussed him out on the floor a lot. He cussed …

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