[From ESPN]
Former NBA star Gary Payton Sr. is the new head coach of the College of Alameda men's basketball team, sources told ESPN's Andscape.
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer was the head coach at the financially strapped NAIA Lincoln University in Oakland, California, the past three seasons before taking over at Alameda, the nearby junior college on an island.
Payton, an Oakland native, inherits a program that went 7-21 last season while playing in the Bay Valley Conference.
The 56-year-old Payton also has been coaching in the Big 3 since its inception in 2017, and this past season led Bivouac to a title while being named the league's coach of the year.
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