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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4569078

LOL.

Wow.

But, maybe I should get on the Marbury plan: take every other year off as a sound business decision, be like Mike, build my empire, etc.

And if my boss offers me a piddily 3000% raise to work for the year? I will laugh at that! Bad business. get Michael Jordan on the phone and lets do this golf/empire thing!

And what about those losers who rule MSG these days? Yeah, I'll go to the occasional game there to bond with the little people in my empire who knew that keepin' it real meant 32 wins was better than a championship if you didn't have all that bad coaching to deal with. Yeah, the Dantoni/ Walsh regime may get the team to the playoffs and beyond next year, but do either of them truly understand the meaning of 3am at Isaiah's? With a jar of vaseline? I didn't think so.

Good luck with your boy LeBron, too, Dantoni. Have him call me when he's done for the league what MJ and I have done for the league, which, between the two of us, is a LOT!

Oh ****, I gotta go. There is tweeting to be done and old grievances to be rehashed. Next up is that poser KG. Yeah, he breaks down on MY watch. You think he did that cuz of injury? No--- it was all about the money! See what I'm saying?

But I got nothin but love for all of ya. Really, I don't hold on to nothin. Bein' real here--- see, there's a few tears on my face now. Woah, where is the camera when you need it?

So when MJ and I make a comeback next year, we gonna take Barcelona all the way to the NBA finals, then leave during game 7 and go to Isaiah's. THAT is called keepin' it real, which Dantoni cannot understand. He will never catch me and MJ. I feel sorry for him, that's all.

LMAO. i'm guessing he's going to "sit out" the rest of his life.

the offer we made was real early on, before his self-implosion. he rejected and we moved on. i know danny is breathing a sigh of relief over that one lol.

The guy just isn't all there. I remember when he turned down our offer because he though he would command a larger offer. Instead the guy goes off the deep end and loses his only offer to play in the NBA. What a friggin moron. He will prob be bankrupt in 5 years.

Hudson is better.

MaxwellSmart wrote:Hudson is better.

QFT

Cancer never stops spreading..

Every team he went to he destroyed .. should say almost.. celtics were luckily spared..

Wow. He's done, book it.

One thing's for sure. It aint your loss LOL

That was a known fact. It happened early in the off-season, before the vaseline eating web freak-out. It was a take-it-or-leave-it offer and he left it. Danny wasn't going to offer twice.


Favorite part of his response?:

keep building my empire

Brilliant.

^^^ or marbs calling the knicks "a mess".

oh, the irony.

I don't believe Marbury really went over the deep end before our eyes. While the video is strange and disturbing, you might be a little surprised if other players also made the mistake of allowing others to peer into their private lives
I think Marbury is not in the NBA because of the combination of the video and his passive performance for the Celtics. I believe he would have been a good fit this season to improve by simply being ready to play, with talent above that of a $1.3 million player. But rightfully management did not want the sideshow. Had he played to the level that he only had shown in flashes, more frequently, somebody would have dealt with the PR and let him play and I think he would have done well.
It really becomes a moot point because if he genuinely believes he can sit out a year and play again, he will find the same problem that he had with the Celtics. He will not be able to catch up with the speed of the game and he'll be a year older. If he really wants to play NBA ball, he needs to go work out at a college every day - let everybody know what he's doing, and make a comment that he knows his video was "way out there" even if that is how he really is. Somebody would probably give him a chance with an injury. But all of these things aren't going to happen and he will waste the talent that he has left.

He still probably makes some sense for a few teams as a midseason pick up. If any of the teams with hopes of making some noise in the playoffs should have a pg go down, why not take a flyer on Marbs? His play wasn't that bad with us. I mean he never took over a game but he also didn't really make any mistakes. He took a very small role and played within it.

Hemingway wrote:He still probably makes some sense for a few teams as a midseason pick up. If any of the teams with hopes of making some noise in the playoffs should have a pg go down, why not take a flyer on Marbs? His play wasn't that bad with us. I mean he never took over a game but he also didn't really make any mistakes. He took a very small role and played within it.

I thought he was a BIG let down.

Here I was thinking we get at LEAST 10ppg off the bench but he was dropping 3ppg off 34FG%.

The guy was missing everything he put up.

He does not have the same confidence on the court like he use to and was too hesitant. Not the same player any more. Same person. Not same player.

His career is probably done, but he makes some good points in the article. The Knicks are such trash and a joke. No one wants to go watch them play. I live 5 min walking distance from MSG and I love NBA, yet I go to 2 games a year there. The 2 Celtics games. That's it. What a waste of a franchise...

Al-Haqq wrote:

Hemingway wrote:He still probably makes some sense for a few teams as a midseason pick up. If any of the teams with hopes of making some noise in the playoffs should have a pg go down, why not take a flyer on Marbs? His play wasn't that bad with us. I mean he never took over a game but he also didn't really make any mistakes. He took a very small role and played within it.

I thought he was a BIG let down.

Here I was thinking we get at LEAST 10ppg off the bench but he was dropping 3ppg off 34FG%.

The guy was missing everything he put up.

He does not have the same confidence on the court like he use to and was too hesitant. Not the same player any more. Same person. Not same player.

We all expected more of him because of circumstances - namely the 11th hour realization that the team was too thin backing up Pierce and Allen. We were hoping he could score and be explosive off of the bench and he was not in good enough basketball shape to do that. He was fine as a veteran's minimum backup PG. With the experience from last year, especially physically, and a new realization that his skills have diminished, he could still be a productive player. The flashes that he did show were enough to believe he could have been a solid contributor and a real bone fide PG on the roster should Rondo ever go down with injury.
No one disputes that Marbury has been his own worst enemy in this whole ordeal. Since he started to bounce a basketball when he was a little kid, he never had to worry about physically being ready to play. So he let his pride take over in his standoff with the Knicks and chose to sit out most of the season over what turned out to be $1 million. I'm sure he totally expected to be ready physically to play and he surely was not. Now he wasn't playing for the Clippers when he came back and he wound up trying so hard to not be selfish, that he went too far the other way, and the 20 games to get him ready for his hybrid role was not enough. Now he is lashing out at the Knicks because he realizes what that layoff did for him professionally, but the combination of his stubbornness, lack of an agent, and lack of dedication to keeping himself in basketball shape has been deadly to him.