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Originally Posted by BullsRepeat3Peat
Marbury's response..
NEW YORK (AP) - With his career in New York seemingly finished, Knicks guard Stephon Marbury lashed out at teammates and coach Mike D'Antoni a day before he was to meet with team president Donnie Walsh about a possible buyout, the New York Post reported in Monday's edition.
Walsh suspended Marbury for Saturday's game against Golden State because the Knicks said Marbury refused to play Wednesday night in a loss at Detroit. The Knicks also docked his pay from that night, with the penalties costing Marbury nearly $400,000.
"I sat there for three weeks and didn't say one word," Marbury told The Post. "I didn't hear one of my teammates say, `Why isn't Stephon Marbury playing? This is a good system for him, even to play with the second unit and bring more firepower.'
"When things got bad and then worse, guys like Quentin Richardson say, `I don't consider him a teammate. He let his teammates out to dry.' He didn't care I was his teammate when I was banished. They left me out for dead. It's like we're in a foxhole and I'm facing the other way. If I got shot in the head, at least you want to get shot by the enemy. I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death."
Marbury isn't part of D'Antoni's plans and has been on the inactive list most of the season. However, D'Antoni twice asked Marbury if he would play when the Knicks were undermanned.
"Mike had no intentions of me playing basketball here," Marbury said. "He gave me straight disrespect. It was beyond disrespect. He put in (Danilo) Gallinari, whose back is messed up and (who) didn't participate at all in training camp ahead of me (in the season opener). ... That's saying, `I'm letting you have it right now.' He was sticking it to me."
Walsh has said he's opposed to buyouts and agreed that it's difficult to trade Marbury because of his salary of approximately $21 million.
"He (D'Antoni) knew I was in my contract year and did everything they asked me to do. He's not trying to help me. He's trying to hurt me," Marbury said.
Marbury agreed to suit up last Friday night in Milwaukee so the Knicks would have the league-mandated eight players in uniform, but declined D'Antoni's offer before the game to take some available minutes.
D'Antoni and Walsh didn't feel that was insubordination, but Walsh believed he had to act this time, when Marbury turned D'Antoni down after guards Nate Robinson and Cuttino Mobley were unavailable in the second game of a back-to-back.
"He suspended me without hearing both sides," Marbury said. "That wasn't fair. He took it upon himself to fine me without even speaking to me."
The players' association plans to file a grievance because Marbury insists he never refused to play.
"Mike gave the option to play," he said. "He couldn't come to me man to man and say, `You have to play.' It was an option."
How so?Originally Posted by yungmatt
This dude is a girl
Originally Posted by grittyman20
The Knicks left him hanging...he had every right to be upset and do what he did.
"Mike gave the option to play," he said. "He couldn't come to me man to man and say, `You have to play.' It was an option."
Something about this quote doesn't seem right...
Marbury needs someone to FORCE him to play?
He can't take it on himself to realize that his team needs him to play?
Originally Posted by grittyman20
How so?Originally Posted by yungmatt
This dude is a girl
The Knicks left him hanging...he had every right to be upset and do what he did.
"I didn't hear one of my teammates say, `Why isn't Stephon Marbury playing?
Uhhh...cause they don't like you...get a clue.
...I'm amazed some of yall could still defend him after our team leader came out and said what he had to say.
But I guess that holds no weight just cause Q isn't as talented as he used to be.
and did everything they asked me to do.
here we go with this...
fool, you are a professional athlete it is your job to get in shape.
That is not something you are rewarded for. It is expected.
"I sat there for three weeks and didn't say one word," Marbury told The Post. "I didn't hear one of my teammates say, `Why isn't Stephon Marbury playing? This is a good system for him, even to play with the second unit and bring more firepower.'
"When things got bad and then worse, guys like Quentin Richardson say, `I don't consider him a teammate. He let his teammates out to dry.' He didn't care I was his teammate when I was banished.
he just doesn't have a clue
Originally Posted by DaComeUP
Steph is 100% right IMO, and that fine will end up being dropped too.
You can't be serious. Everyone knows his image wouldn't have been changed regardless of what happened. There is NOTHING he can do tochange it.Originally Posted by Al3xis
Take 15/16 million and be done with it.
But last week, if I had the opportunity to change my image to the rest of the league and help my teammates...I woulda done it.
Originally Posted by true 3 blue
So let me ask you this.Would you go out and play after all of this if you were him? What exactly would you do if you were him.
Originally Posted by LazyJ10
Originally Posted by true 3 blue
So let me ask you this.Would you go out and play after all of this if you were him? What exactly would you do if you were him.
Do what you're being paid to do is too much to ask? He could have gone out there and half assed it for all I care, but the point is, you're being paid to be a basketball player.
So because he wasn't asked to play prior, the Knicks can't ask him to do anything?Originally Posted by 651akathePaul
Originally Posted by LazyJ10
Originally Posted by true 3 blue
So let me ask you this.Would you go out and play after all of this if you were him? What exactly would you do if you were him.
Do what you're being paid to do is too much to ask? He could have gone out there and half assed it for all I care, but the point is, you're being paid to be a basketball player.
He is not getting paid to half %@% anything either. Ya'll need to stop with this argument about doing what you're paid to do. Obviously the Knicks don't want him to do what they payed him for either. Think about it.
No matter how the past of Marbury is judged, this time he is doing the right thing.