[ThePundit]

http://www.nypost.com/sports/knicks/63137.htm
What's next? Marbury comes to practice and tries to choke Brown? But this time the team let's him!

[wedge]

Don't mess with Starbury man . What a waste of "talent".

[Who Dey]

"How long have I been in coaching? How many years..... huh? yeah, alot' a years Right? I have never once left a team in worse condition than when I took it over. Now, can you say the same thing for the guy who made those coments your talkin' about?"
-Larry Brown answering a reporters questions in regards to Marbury's comments that Coach Brown was not a good leader.

friggin' priceless man.

[cjg11582]

So who goes? will Isiah trade Marbury or will Brown simply walk away? Both scenarios are all too familiar at this point.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Here's a solution...why don't they both turn on Isiah and call it a "team building" exercise...no?...

[cjg11582]

I have been thinking about this, maybe The Knicks should acquire every notable dysfunctional personality that we are all familiar with. Honestly, they don't even have to be basketball players, just famous personalities we all connotate with lunacy. That means you would keep Marbury, Thomas, reacquire Antonio Davis just for the Kendra Davis factor. Followed up by Michael Jackson, any "Bachelor" contestant, Ron Artest, Bill Romanowski and the naked guy who sings in Times Square, Just to see what transpires, Wouldn't this be more interesting to watch than another ho-hum NBA team that cannot win a game? It would essentially be like "The Surreal Life" but they would have to play professional basketball teams every night. If nothing else they would at least have some cap room and I could take them more seriously than I can two guys making a combined thirty million dollars (this year) squabble about who is more to blame for a 14-45 record, when clearly they are both to blame.

[legend]

"Marbury is selfish? Oh my God! How was I to know?" Come on Larry. It's not like you did not know what you were getting yourself into for your ten million dollars. This is his way of blaming this lost year on someone else. The only way he leaves the Knicks in better shape than when he came in is if he drives into the East River with Mr. Thomas and Marbury in the car with him.

[ThePundit]

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send stephan back to the projects in coney island. He is so selfish and clueless he doesn;t deserve to be in the NBA. He belongs on the playground
Submitted by: Mr knick
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larry not the problem, though he shouldn't have been pick for this team -- marbury sucks, trade the selfish moron or just release him and pay him to stay away from the team -- larry should bench him for rest of season, see how he likes that
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BY ANTHONY RIEBER
STAFF WRITER

March 16, 2006


Yesterday, it was Stephon Marbury's turn.

"I think it's personal now," the point guard said about his growing feud with Knicks coach Larry Brown. "I don't think it's about basketball anymore. If it was about basketball, we'd be talking about basketball."

And that was how Day 5 of the latest installment of the Marbury-Brown feud began.

First, a smiling Marbury strolled right up to an eager throng of reporters at the team's morning shootaround and ripped his coach for, among other things, ripping him, as Brown did Tuesday.

"I'm no longer going to allow him to say things about me and I'm not going to say anything back," Marbury said. "That's just not going to happen. I allowed him to drag me the first three, four months in the paper and I didn't say one word. I just sat back and took it. I'm not taking it no more.

"If something's going to be said, I'm going to defend myself. My mother taught me that. If somebody hits you, you hit them back."

A few minutes after Marbury was done, Brown was told about his best player's comments. He denied their dispute is personal.

"That's great," Brown said. "Again, I'm the coach of the basketball team. The only thing that matters to me is that we play the right way. I'm going to focus on that. I'm not going to focus on things that have nothing to do with being a good teammate."

What kind of teammate Marbury is and what kind of coach Brown is were the topics of discussion yesterday.

Marbury started by responding to Brown's comments from Tuesday, when the Hall of Fame coach said he would stack his resumé against Marbury's any day. That was in response to Marbury's comments Saturday that he was going to go back to playing his way because the coach's way wasn't working.

"If Coach is comparing his career to my career, he's got like a 20-year edge on me," Marbury said. "To me that sounds like there's a lot of insecurities going on ... He's basically speaking on things he's done. I think the people in New York want to know what he's going to do as far as us winning. What happened in the past is in the past."

Asked if he believes Brown crossed the line, Marbury said, "He always crosses the line. That ain't nothing new. Certain coaches deal with certain things certain ways. He handles his things through the media as opposed to sitting down and talking with people."

Marbury also took a shot at Brown's coaching prowess. He said, "Coach is a great coach. That's what everyone says," then pointed out that Brown hasn't exactly turned the Knicks into winners in his first season.

Asked if he thinks Brown's system could work, Marbury laughed and said, "You tell me. We're [18]-45. You tell me. Call a spade a spade. That's just real. Maybe next year."

Will Marbury be a Knick next year? He has three years and $60.3 million left on his contract, which would make a trade difficult if the Knicks wanted to make one this summer.

The Coney Island product made it clear he doesn't want to leave his hometown team, although he stopped short of saying he wants to play for Brown.

"I want to play basketball in New York," he said. "I love New York and I believe New York loves me."

Marbury rejected the notion that team president Isiah Thomas needs to step in and "mediate" the feud. Thomas has shown no such inclination.

"We're two grown men," Marbury said. "We don't have to have another grown man come in and mediate two grown men. What's that about?"

[EmpireWF]

Marbury will be gone in the off-season, you can tell from everything coming out of MSG. Brown has praised Crawford and Francis and there's no way Dolan and Thomas are getting rid of Brown.

'Starbury' is nothing but a bum.

[ThePundit]

The showdown continues: Are we building up to another choking?

Marbury:

"I think it's personal now "I don't think it's about basketball anymore. If it was about basketball, we'd be talking about basketball."

"I'm no longer going to allow him to say things about me and I'm not going to say anything back, that's just not going to happen. I allowed him to drag me the first three, four months in the paper and I didn't say one word. I just sat back and took it. I'm not taking it no more."

"If something's going to be said, I'm going to defend myself. My mother taught me that. If somebody hits you, you hit them back."

""If Coach is comparing his career to my career, he's got like a 20-year edge on me." That sounds like there's a lot of insecurities going on ... He's basically speaking on things he's done. I think the people in New York want to know what he's going to do as far as us winning. What happened in the past is in the past."

Asked if he believes Brown crossed the line, Marbury said, "He always crosses the line. That ain't nothing new. Certain coaches deal with certain things certain ways. He handles his things through the media as opposed to sitting down and talking with people."

Asked if he thinks Brown's system could work, Marbury laughed and said, "You tell me. We're [18]-45. You tell me. Call a spade a spade. That's just real. Maybe next year."

Brown's reaction?

"That's great. Again, I'm the coach of the basketball team. The only thing that matters to me is that we play the right way. I'm going to focus on that. I'm not going to focus on things that have nothing to do with being a good teammate."

[EmpireWF]

Nothing that drastic Pundit...but it won't be pretty nonetheless.

[ThePundit]

This is the latest as 3/17/06

Stephon Marbury was pulled out of a videotape session before practice for a brief meeting with Larry Brown. "He basically told me he could do whatever he wants with this franchise and that he doesn't want to trade me and that everything that went on throughout the last week is over with," Marbury said. "So, I said, 'OK,' and I left."

Asked if he believes Brown really doesn't want to trade him and the remaining three years of a contract valued at $60.3 million, Marbury arched his eyebrows and said, "Do I believe him? I have no comment on that."

As for whether Brown has the power to do as he pleases, which would imply the backing of team president Isiah Thomas, Marbury shrugged and said, "I don't know. He flexed a real hard 'juice' card, I know that. He definitely made me aware of what he can do. But that doesn't scare me at all."

"He told me to play the way he wants me to play, and if I don't feel like it's the right way, just bear with it," Marbury said. "I didn't say yes, and I didn't say no."