|| 3.0 || 8.7 || 1.3 || .2 || 18.5 |- | style="text-align:left;"|2004 | style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers | 22 || 22 || 35.1 || .366 || .250 || .750 || 3.3 || 5.3 || 1.0 || .2 || 7.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"|2005 | style="text-align:left;"|Boston | 7 || 7 || 34.1 || .446 || .071 || .833 || 4.1 || 4.6 || .9 || .1 || 10.3 |- | style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"|2006† | style="text-align:left;"|Miami | 23 || 0 || 24.3 || .422 || .293 || .720 || 1.7 || 1.6 || 1.0 || .1 || 5.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"|2007 | style="text-align:left;"|Miami | 2 || 0 || 16.0 || .000 || .000 || – || 2.0 || 1.5 || .0 || .0 || .0 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career | 154 || 129 || 35.6 || .441 || .315 || .706 || 3.7 || 5.3 || 1.4 || .2 || 14.0 Awards/accomplishments NBA highlights NBA champion: 2006 NBA Defensive Player of The Year: 1996 9-time NBA All-Star: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 9-time All-NBA: First Team: 1998, 2000 Second Team: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002 Third Team: 1994, 2001 9-time All-Defensive First Team member: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999*, 2000*, 2001, 2002 (shares record for selections with Michael Jordan, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant) * Highest vote getter in 1999 and 2000, second highest in 1998 and 2002 NBA All-Rookie Second Team: 1991 Led NBA in assists: 1999–2000 (732) Led NBA in steals: 1995–96 (231) Led NBA in three-pointers made: 1999–2000 (177) NBA 75th Anniversary Team: 2021 Other Two-time Olympic gold medalist with the United States national team: 1996 Olympic Games (Atlanta) and 2000 Olympic Games (Sydney). Ranked #39 on SLAM's Top 100 NBA Players of All Time in 2018. Ranked #10 on ESPN's Top 10 NBA Point Guards of All Time. In a 2006 poll of 86,000 ESPN.com readers who were asked to rank the ESPN top 10 on various aspects of the game, Payton was considered "best defender" by 48.1% of respondents. Walt "Clyde" Frazier was second, with 11.8% of the vote. Payton and Frazier are the only two-point guards to be selected to more than 5 NBA All-Defensive First Teams (9 and 7, respectively), and two of only four players who were selected to 5 or more All-Defensive teams without ever being on an All-Defensive 2nd team (Michael Jordan and Dave DeBusschere are the others). In