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The Knicks can't seem to do anything right. He should have been taken care off in the preseason. Is not a state secret that him and D'Antoni have had problems dating back to Phoenix.
The Knicks can't seem to do anything right. He should have been taken care off in the preseason. Is not a state secret that him and D'Antoni have had problems dating back to Phoenix.
Knicks are still a joke even after hiring Walsh. Give me a break. Release the guy and move on. It's about money for both parties and in Marbury's case he deserves his money because that's the responsibility of the team he signed a contract with if you don't want him anymore just release him but you gon' pay him that money you allowed him to sign for. Simple as that. Now they coming with a suspension several days after the initial(first) no play game. This is getting sad on the Knicks part regardless of what Quentin (use to be a Suns) says.
You're upset he refuses to play for you, so you...suspend him from playing?
Marbury suspended one game, told to stay away from Knicks until Monday
By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com
NEW YORK -- Stephon Marbury has been suspended for one game by the New York Knicks, who are alleging he refused to play Wednesday night against the Detroit Pistons.
Marbury was suspended without pay for Saturday's game and was also fined 1/110th of his salary for his actions in Detroit, meaning his penalty amounts to almost $400,000 of his $20.84 million salary for this season.
A source told ESPN.com on Friday that Marbury has been told to stay away from the team at least until Monday, when his status will be re-addressed. He will not practice Friday, nor will he be welcome in the home locker room at Madison Square Garden when the Knicks play the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night.
"A player's central obligation is to provide his professional services when called upon," president of basketball operations Donnie Walsh said in the team's announcement. "Because he refused the coach's request to play in the team's last game, we had no choice but to impose disciplinary action."
Marbury has disputed the Knicks' allegation that he refused to play, telling The New York Post: "I never told [coach Mike D'Antoni] I'm not going to play. Those words never came out of my mouth. That's insubordination."
Hal Biagas, an NBA Players' Association attorney advising Marbury, told ESPN.com Friday morning: "We feel the discipline imposed by the Knicks is baseless. We plan to file a grievance."
According to New York-area media reports, the Knicks were expected to send Marbury home while considering solutions to the problem. Those included fining and suspending him; trying to reach a buyout agreement with him; or simply sending him home with pay until he can be traded or is released.
In an interview with the Post published Friday, Marbury said he can't play for D'Antoni because he doesn't trust him.
"We need to separate from the relationship," he said, according to the Post. "The marriage is over. It's a done deal."
The Knicks are currently down to two healthy guards -- Chris Duhon and Anthony Roberson -- after Nate Robinson missed Wednesday's game with a groin injury. Cuttino Mobley, acquired in last week's trade with the Los Angeles Clippers, has not yet been cleared by team doctors.
Marbury, who said his su ion of D'Antoni has reached the point that "I wouldn't trust him to walk my dog across the street," said he did not create the Knicks' current situation, according to the Post.
"[D'Antoni] created this from the beginning," Marbury said, according to the report. "Why did he create this environment? I came here ready to play, focused, taking on the role I was ready to take on. They said, 'We don't want you.' I'm not in the plans. I said, 'OK, no problem.' "
"I didn't create this," Marbury said, according to the Post. "I'm sitting inside the car. I'm not behind the wheel in the driver's seat. I have no control of the wheel of the car, if we're turning or going straight. I'm sitting in the backseat. He's not going to play me because my heart isn't in it, because the way he treated me. That's on him, not me."
After Marbury reportedly declined to play against the Pistons, teammate Quentin Richardson offered harsh criticism.
"I don't consider him my teammate," Richardson said of Marbury Wednesday. "You don't do that to teammates. Regardless of whoever he's trying to stick it to, at the end of the day, we're being left out there."
Marbury responded to that criticism in his interview with the Post, saying, "Quentin doesn't understand what's going on in the business side, but I'm sorry he feels that way."
why is it only the team's responsibility? he signed the contract and has obligations to fulfil as well. if they are going to pay him 100% of the contract (because he wont accept a buy out), why should they release him from the contract? for being a cancerous underperforming loudmouth?
i really can't understand the people defending marbury. he was excluded from the team because of all the shenanigans he pulled in the past couple years, not because D'antoni and Walsh are mean.
He's under contract. He needs to fulfill his contractual obligations. He might not like D'Antoni and that's fine. He can also ask to be traded and be a professional.
Man I'd hate to be Marbury's agent.
im confused on how all this started?
i dont follow the knicks at all,m but i thought they liked him up there?
plus i would tell the coach to off too if he benched me for the beginning of the season and then wanted me to play bc theyve gotten rid of everyone. wit the hope of getting lebron, in TWO eyars. im tired of hearing about that too!
they should release him because they don't want him there.
D'Antoni nor Walsh was there the other years so why do they have a problem with Marbury, that's not what they have been saying all summer nor up to this particular point.
Defending him, please I'm saying what I'd say for anyone I felt was getting the run around. It's all about the money they no longer want to pay him because they dont want him there. They are trying to rid the franchise of all the remaining reminders of Isaiah Thomas but are unable to move his contract so they are trying to force a buyout, atleast they were at first. They've been lying all along and it's more apparent now.
You can dislike the guy all day long but he sign a contract and they approved so pay him, you don't want him release him or trade him because he's not accepting less is your problem not his. like it or not. that's why it's a contract.
I never said I liked or disliked Marbury but keeping it reAL without involving my personal feeling towards the guy, the Knicks are screwing him and there's nothing right about it regardless of what he ALLEGEDLY has done in the past.
Seems the only thing he has done to set the franchise off is tell on Thomas during the trial against the former female who sued the team and Thomas, keep that in mind.
Heard Don Nelson wants him. Why don't the Knicks just pay him partial to get rid of him and the Warriors can pay the rest. That way he gets his salary paid. No harm no foul, everybody is happy.
Please God let that be true, because guess who else loves him some Starbury:
And I was SOOOO looking forward to that sixth seed and another first-round exit. Now with "The Best PG in the League" on board, we'll be lottery-bound.
That would be Marbury.
*click*-the sound of Chugz voting for Marbury again for the ASG
For $20 million dollars he should suck it up and play a couple of games until being put back on the IR. Not so much for the Knicks even, but to show other teams he can be a professional when a head coach is on a power trip.
If I were him and as much of an ass D'Antoni was, I'd play and dribble the ball off my knee, accidently throw it to the opposing player or clank three pointers. Fastest way for Marbury to find his way back to the bench and not play.
What's 20 g's out of a 100 million contract?
Who are you, Steve Francis??
If I was Marbury I would do the same thing!!!... them, they only want to play him when they want to, so they actually deserve every bit of it. Trust me the man has more talent than any of the point guards they have, so why not let him play in the first place?... your paying him $20 million, might as well get your moneys worth...Because he is damn near untradeable, especially the salary he is owed. Not many teams are going to take that kind of salary off of their hands. But I bet as soon as he is a free agent, there will be 20 teams beating down his door?...
this is what marbury is to the knicks...
Oh..and Marbury isn't the man
Waive him then, and Bill Walton was wrong Marbury did say he'd love to play for a champion team, SPURS. It's not as much about money for him as it is for the Knicks it's plain to see but because the guy has a bad rep everyone would rather dump on him than the treasured Knicks. Walton even tried to dump on him but it was good to see Jalen Rose agreed with me and I with him but what does it matter, Rse has a bad rep too.
sook, that's ing gross man.
I don't blame Marbury, he's still a but he's somewhat right here.
marbury also said he's the best PG in the league, doesnt make it true.
not about money for marbury? then why not take the proposed buyout and go play somewhere else? it's more about money for marbury, otherwise he would accept the buyout. but he's probably right about that in the sense that he probably wont get another contract, not even in europe.
why dont they want him there? because hes an unreliable nutcase and even his teammates hate him. whose fault is that? whose fault is it that stephon marbury has been traded by every single team he has played on? and that every one of those teams improved after he left? the knicks? please.
marbury has been giving his teams, his teammates, his coaches and his fans the runaround for a decade.
the knicks cant force a buyout, i can accept that. but he cant force them to release him either. Let him sit on his ass collecting his paychecks as he fades into obscurity (crazy youtube interviews aside).
If marbury really loved the game of basketball he would have accepted a buyout a long time ago. he's just a greedy dumbass who likes to impress girls by dunking, but he dont give a flip about compe ive basketball.
Only an idiot would leave that kind of money on the table. the Knicks, sit your ass down and collect your check.
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