[Grossman] During the offseason, Payton Pritchard recruited Division II and III basketball players to play him at a high school gym in Cape Cod. Pritchard goes through 150 possessions a day, and if the defenders hold him under 60%, he pays for them to “eat like kings” at Chipotle.

Payton Pritchard: What Happened

Fans on r/nba on Reddit were talking about this on Monday, October 26, 2026. Here is the post:

It's 6:45 in the morning in the middle of June, and Pritchard has just walked into the humid gym of his choice, at a high school on the southeastern tip of Cape Cod. He'd pulled up to school grounds 10 minutes earlier but had to wait outside while his trainer, Michael Soares, phoned a staffer to open the locked double doors. This gym, like most of the unglamorous gyms Pritchard handpicks for his offseason workouts, doesn't boast amenities such as air-conditioning. A few years ago, a heat wave slammed West Linn, Oregon, where he grew up. Outside, temperatures ticked up to 115 degrees, and it grew only more tropical indoors, hitting 120 in the gym at his high school alma mater, where he was conducting workouts. Pritchard came armed with extra towels because even the ball was sweating that day. The conditions in his Cape Cod accommodations are temperate by comparison. And anyway, Pritchard likes the muck. The muck is why he has been recruiting Division II and III basketball players, international guys and hometown buddies to high school gyms for years now. They're not exactly a ragtag motley crew, but they're not polished professionals either, and Pritchard figures that makes them hungry. He'll pay for their gas to drive down from Boston to the Cape, or their flights to cross the country or an ocean, because they can be counted on to play feisty, relentless one-on-one defense. Today, as ever, it's…

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Key Takeaways

• The story: [Grossman] During the offseason, Payton Pritchard recruited Division II and III basketball players to play him at a high school gym in Cape Cod. Pritchard goes through 150 possessions a day, and if the defenders hold him under 60%, he pays for them to “eat like kings” at Chipotle.
• Who’s involved: Payton Pritchard, Cape Cod. Pritchard, Division II and III
• League: NBA
• First reported: Monday, October 26, 2026 by r/nba on Reddit

How Other Outlets Are Covering It

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• How Payton Pritchard became Boston's unlikely iso kingESPN The sixth man supreme doggedly sharpens his game in brutal summer practices. That's an edge the C's will need.

Background: National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier basketball league in the world. The league is headquartered in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey.

The NBA was created on August 3, 1949, with the merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL).

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