NBA Hall of Famer Gary Payton will be hired as the head basketball coach at Lincoln University, ESPN's Marc Spears reports.
Payton signed a multiyear deal to coach at LU, a private independent school in Payton's hometown of Oakland, California. The school is located in downtown Oakland and is scheduled to start a new basketball program in the 2021-22 school year.
"It’s a startup program and a private independent school where I can establish what I want to establish,” Payton told The Undefeated. “I don’t have to go behind anybody to try to make a program become something or keep it going.