Fw: [Celtic_Pride] See ya Nate

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

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From: "Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>
To: "Celt's" <Celtic_Pride@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: [Celtic_Pride] See ya Nate


> Why don't we stop fooling around and trade for this guy??  Is Nate gone 4
> days from now?
>
> Cecil
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> 'Tempers did fly'
>
> Sonics suspend Payton for at least one game
> Click here for more on this story
> Posted: Thursday January 18, 2001 4:13 PM
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> SEATTLE (AP) -- Seattle SuperSonics point guard Gary Payton has been
> suspended for a minimum of one game for "conduct detrimental to the team,"
> team president and general manager Wally Walker said Thursday.
>
> No further details were immediately released.
>
> Payton and teammate Ruben Patterson had an angry confrontation during a
> fourth-quarter timeout in Wednesday night's 89-80 home loss against
Phoenix.
>
> "To fight amongst ourselves is the wrong thing to do. Tempers did fly.
That
> can't happen," The Seattle Times quoted Sonics coach Nate McMillan as
saying
> after the game.
>
> Patterson declined to discuss the incident after the game, and Payton was
> not available.
>
> Payton was suspended earlier this year after a confrontation with
then-coach
> Paul Westphal in the huddle Nov. 21 in Dallas.
>
> "You play; I'll coach," Westphal told Payton.
>
> The emotional Payton erupted and had to be separated from his coach on the
> court. Afterward, he ripped into Westphal to reporters.
>
> Walker announced the next day that Payton was suspended for the Sonics'
game
> that night in San Antonio. Payton met with Westphal, apologized and got
the
> suspension lifted.
>
> Five days later, the Sonics fired Westphal and replaced him with McMillan,
a
> career Sonics player and popular assistant.
>
> Payton is an 11-year veteran and six-time all-star who passed Fred Brown
> last month to become the Sonics' all-time leading scorer. He often has
> clashed with teammates and coaches.
>
> He was involved in a much-publicized weight-room brawl last year with
former
> teammate Vernon Maxwell. Horace Grant was injured in that scuffle,
> reportedly by a thrown weight.
>
> The Sonics' next game is at home against Minnesota Friday night.
>
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