Long before Gary Payton II won an NBA title, he played two seasons for Salt Lake Community College. The school retired his No. 1 jersey on Friday night.
Gary Payton II, a former SLCC basketball star, returned to the campus court in 2016 with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers basketball team. Now with the Portland Trail Blazers, Payton II had his jersey number retired at SLCC on Friday.Salt Lake Community College has retired the jersey of former Bruin and current Portland Trail Blazers guard Gary Payton II.
“We are thrilled to honor Gary by retiring his jersey,” Salt Lake’s Director of Athletics Kevin Dustin said in a statement. “His accomplishments on-and-off the court exemplify the best of Bruin basketball.” “I think Gary helped push SLCC to the next level where we became consistently a Top 10 program in the country,” said former SLCC coach Todd Phillips. “His two years he helped SLCC go to back-to-back conference championships, and back-to-back national tournaments. Along the way he made SportsCenter’s ‘TopTen’ and entertained fans everywhere he went.”
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