Gary Payton says the Sonics remind him of when he thought he was the Energizer Bunny.  

They?re a young team, and the Glove says, ?know one way: play hard. And that's the way they do that, and when they are tired they don't know how to do that. When their shot is struggling, they don't know how to get out of it.?

Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News Tribune quotes Payton as saying that?s why you can?t predict how the team is going to play on any given night.  

Payton said it took him about six years, the year the Sonics made it to the NBA Finals, to learn how to adjust to the NBA lifestyle.  Either he?d want to party all night or do Play Station all afternoon.

Nowadays Payton does what all of us wish we could: he has a nap during the afternoon of a game.

On a different matter, Hughes recounts what Sonics coach Nate McMillan did during the Rashard Lewis negotiations.  He talked to Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens (also a former Sonics coach).  Wilkens has been McMillan?s mentor since McMillan became coach.