The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association.
 The season is memorable when the team hired Doc Rivers to be their head coach for the upcoming season.
 During the offseason, the Celtics acquired All-Star guard Gary Payton, and former Celtics forward Rick Fox from the Los Angeles Lakers, but Fox would retire before the season.
 The Celtics struggled playing under .500 for the first half of the season.
 At midseason, Payton was traded to the Atlanta Hawks for former Celtic All-Star forward Antoine Walker.
 However, Payton would never suit up for the Hawks and was released shortly after.
 He then re-signed with the Celtics afterwards for the remainder of the season.
 The team went on a 7-game winning streak in March, finishing first place in the Atlantic Division with a 45–37 record.
 Paul Pierce was selected for the 2005 NBA All-Star Game.
The 2002–03 NBA season was the SuperSonics' 36th season in the National Basketball Association.
 During the offseason, the Sonics acquired Kenny Anderson and Vitaly Potapenko from the Boston Celtics.
 The Sonics got off to a solid start winning eight of their first ten games, but then lost six of their next seven games, then posted six-game losing streaks in January and February.
 At midseason, before the trading deadline, the team traded All-Star point guard Gary Payton and Desmond Mason to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for All-Star shooting guard Ray Allen.
 More changes continued as Anderson was traded to the New Orleans Hornets for Elden Campbell.
 The Sonics, now led by the newly acquired Allen, finished the season fifth in the Pacific Division with a 40–42 record, missing the playoffs.
 Payton also represented the Western Conference for the final time in the 2003 NBA All-Star Game.
 Following the season, Campbell signed as a free agent with the Detroit Pistons.
The 2007–2008 Boston Celtics season was the 62nd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Powered by the acquisitions of perennial All-Stars Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen in the offseason, the Celtics finished with a record of 66–16 and posted the best single-season turnaround in NBA history.
 They finished first in both the Atlantic Division and the Eastern Conference, and achieved the league's best record.
 The 66 wins were also the third-most in franchise history, behind the 1972–73 Celtics’ 68 wins and the famous 1985–86 Celtics’ 67 wins including 40 at home.
 Kevin Garnett was named NBA Defensive Player of the Year, while Danny Ainge, who executed "the most dramatic NBA turnaround ever", was named NBA Executive of the Year.
 The Celtics also sold out all 41 regular-season home games.
The 1988–89 Boston Celtics season was the 43rd season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 This was the first season for Jim Rodgers as head coach.
 Rodgers had been a Celtics assistant coach prior to this season.
 This year's Celtics team was severely hindered by the loss of star forward Larry Bird to a heel injury which required surgery.
 Bird played only six early-season games before being lost to injury.
 Initially, Bird was expected back in March, but it was delayed and ultimately became a season-ending injury.
 The results were dramatic as the Celtics, who had averaged over 60 wins per season thus far in the 1980s, fell to just 42 wins in this season.
 Coming into the season, the Celtics had been the Eastern Conference's #1 seed five years in a row.
 This season they were the #8 seed, clinching a playoff spot in the season's final game.
 This season included some bright spots, particularly the emergence of guard Reggie Lewis, who had been only a minimal bench contributor in his rookie season of 1987-88, but averaged nearly 20 points per game as a starter in 1988-89.
The 2012–13 Boston Celtics season was the 67th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Boston Celtics finished the regular season with a 41–40 won-loss record, which was the 3rd best in the Atlantic division, bringing an end to the 5-year run as Atlantic Champs and 7th best in the East.
 Their longest winning and losing streaks were 7 and 6 games respectively.
 The leading scorer was Paul Pierce, averaging 18.6 PPG.
 The leading rebounder was Kevin Garnett (7.8 RPG).
 Rajon Rondo led the team and the league in assists per-game with 11.1 despite only playing 38 games due to ACL injury.
 The Celtics only played 81 games as their April 16 game was cancelled in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and was not rescheduled because it would not have changed any part of the final Eastern Conference standings anyway.
 The Celtics would go on to lose in the first round of the playoffs for the first time since the 2004–05 season.
 This season would mark the end of the Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett era in Boston as they were traded to the Brooklyn Nets during the 2013 off-season.
The 2001–02 NBA season was the 35th season for the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association.
 Heading into Nate McMillan's first full season as head coach, the Sonics struggled losing five of their first seven games.
 However, they played above .500 for the remainder of the season finishing fourth in the Pacific Division with a 45–37 record, which was only a one-game improvement over the previous season where they missed the playoffs.
 Gary Payton was selected for the 2002 NBA All-Star Game.
 However, their season would end quickly as they lost in five games in the first round of the playoffs to the San Antonio Spurs led by Tim Duncan, who was MVP following the season.
 This season was also Payton's final full season in Seattle, as he was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks midway next season.
 Also following the season, Vin Baker was traded to the Boston Celtics.
The 2009–10 Boston Celtics season was the 64th season of the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Celtics finished with a record of 50–32, a 12 win drop off from the previous season.
 They finished 1st in the Atlantic Division and 4th in the Eastern Conference.
 The Celtics made it back to the NBA Finals after a one-year hiatus and played against the Los Angeles Lakers.
 Facing a rematch of the 2008 NBA Finals, in which the Celtics defeated the Lakers in six games to capture their seventeenth championship, the Celtics were defeated this time in seven games.
Kobe Bryant is an American basketball shooting guard who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA draft, Bryant was traded to the Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.
 He led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships playing alongside Shaquille O'Neal from 2000 to 2002.
 After O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat before the 2004–05 season, Bryant "became the cornerstone" of the Lakers franchise.
 He led the NBA in scoring during the and seasons.
 In the 2007–08 season, Bryant won the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) and led his team to the 2008 NBA Finals, where the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics.
 After winning the gold medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of the U.S. men's basketball team, he led the Lakers to two more championships in 2009 and 2010, defeating the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics.
Antoine Devon Walker (born August 12, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player.
 He was drafted with the sixth overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft out of the University of Kentucky and played in the NBA from 1996 to 2008.
 Walker played for the Celtics, Mavericks, Hawks, Heat, Timberwolves, the BSN's Mets and the NBA D-League's Stampede before retiring from basketball in 2012.
 Walker, a three-time NBA All-Star, won an NCAA championship with Kentucky in 1996 and an NBA championship with the Miami Heat in 2006.
The 1946–47 Boston Celtics season was the first season of the Boston Celtics in the Basketball Association of America (BAA/NBA).
 Walter A. Brown was the man who was responsible for starting the franchise.
 On an early June day in 1946, Brown, who operated the Boston Garden arena and was part of the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins, was the driving force behind the Basketball Association of America and the Celtics birth.
 After considering several team names, including Whirlwinds, Unicorns and Olympics, Brown opted for Celtics.
 He hoped to grab the attention of Boston's large Irish American population.
 John Davis "Honey" Russell was hired as the first Celtics coach, and the team soon began its inaugural season, losing its first game 59–53 to the Providence Steamrollers.
 Although the Celtics would eventually become the signature franchise of the NBA, the club had a lacklustre first season as they started with 0 wins and 5 losses.
 The Celtics won their first game of the season against the Toronto Huskies.

Question: During the 2004–05 Boston Celtics season Gary Payton was traded for a basketball player that attened what univeristy?
Answer: University of Kentucky