
Gary Payton KNEW His NBA Finals Game-Winner Was Going In (He ALMOST Never Played In Miami)
The HEAT Podcast NetworkEpisode Notes
2026 marks the 20-year anniversary of our first NBA Title. To celebrate, we invited the Champions back for 1-on-1 conversations about the moments and memories from that historic run.
This is "Reignited: The 2006 Championship" with Gary Payton, who tells us he believed his career was over in 2005 and almost never played for the HEAT (until he received a special visit in the offseason.) The rest is history...








