Gary Payton still couldn't believe he actually made a deal with the Devil.
For the Championship Ring, he was about to team up with the person he despised the most.
No, with the two people he despised the most.
Dikembe Mutombo had also always been on Gary Payton's blacklist, because the Denver Nuggets, led by Mount Mutombo, had upset the SuperSonics in 1994, which was one of the most humiliating moments of Payton's career.
Gary Payton tried to think if there were any similar precedents, examples of two people dead set against each other voluntarily coming together to play on the same team and achieving success.
In the end, Payton found that there really were no such examples.
True, Scottie Pippen and Stevie Smith had also really disliked number 14 before teaming up with Roger, but they still won the championship together.
