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As good as it gets for Starbury. I'm glad no NBA team signed him - he should do well in China and he can use this occasion to promote the Starbury brand.
Stephon Marbury has signed to play basketball and it turns out that in fact three billion Chinese just might care.
The former NBA All-Star will get a three-year contract to remain with Shanxi Zhongyu of the Chinese Basketball Association.
Marbury, 33, who said he had talked to the Miami Heat, played 15 games last year for the Chinese team. He plans to play another two seasons and then be an assistant coach. He received $100,000 for playing one-half of a season last year.
The team owners are expected to start a company that will produce and sell shoes from the player's "Starbury" brand.
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...ars-in-china/1
As good as it gets for Starbury. I'm glad no NBA team signed him - he should do well in China and he can use this occasion to promote the Starbury brand.
And in other news....so did Steve Francis
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• Retired or well-past-their-prime point guards keep lobbying to play for the Heat. First it was Penny Hardaway and Stephon Marbury (forget those). Now, Steve Francis plans to contact Miami; he's 33 but hasn't played since a quadriceps tendon injury in 2007-08.
Retired former Duke star Jay Williams said, ``I should come out of retirement and give Miami a point guard. I'm only 28. It helps that [Heat executive] Nick Arison and I went to school together.'' But all of those names are unlikely, and there are mixed views inside the Heat about whether even to add a third veteran point guard. . . .
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/2...#ixzz0v4sCwENC
Three billion Chinese might care? What the crap are they talking about?
Steve Francis certainly believes he's still got gas in the tank. I have no link other than what a poster wrote on another BBS but its supposedly in print on the new SLAM Magazine led "What happened to Steve Francis"
On how he keeps NBA-ready and a possible comeback: "My agent won't allow me to go out and play streetball because I have nothing left to prove out there, so I work out at my court at home with my 2 yr old son ... I'm still able to get out on the (NBA) court and bust somebody's *** ... If a team calls me up and is interested, give me two weeks and I'm ready to rock. The money has to be right though."
On the Rockets: "They signed me back and they had me playing behind somebody that wasn't even drafted--Skip to My Lou. You can't let a three-time NBA all-star rot on the bench. It really rubbed me the wrong way."
On getting signed to the Grizzlies and waived "Why would I need to showcase myself at this point and prove myself to a team that wasn't winning and play behind two players (Mike Conley and Kyle Lowry at the time) that haven't proven themselves? My agent worked out a deal to get me out of there..."
On getting signed to the Grizzlies and waived "Why would I need to showcase myself at this point and prove myself to a team that wasn't winning and play behind two players (Mike Conley and Kyle Lowry at the time) that haven't proven themselves? My agent worked out a deal to get me out of there..."
He also disses Durant & Beasley saying they will never be able to say they were the greatest player from DC since Len Bias. He also says he wants to be the Master P of DC and run a huge record label for DC artists. He also says he does nothing but chill, and check on his businesses.
Last edited by Indazone; 07-29-2010 at 08:49 AM.
Marbury didn't reject the Heat, he's just waiting for a call back
By Trey Kerby
On Friday we all had some laughs about Stephon Marbury(notes) turning down a chance to play with the Miami Heat. 'Twas typical Marbury to refuse a shot at a championship in order to throw "alley-hoops" and shoot halfcourt threes in China. However, there's another part of Stephon Marbury that rears it's head pretty often — fighting with the media.
And now, he's doing just that, making this the perfect Marbury story arc. From the New York Post's Marc Berman:
Marbury, back in China for promotional events, said a Chinese reporter mixed up the translation of his remarks and that it was erroneously reported he had rejected the Dream Team's overtures -- an account picked up in New York.OK, cool. This makes a bunch of sense too. It's pretty easy to envision a scenario where the Heat were brainstorming ways to build their team and someone suggested Marbury making a return to the NBA. Then, maybe the Heat made a call and told him they'd get back to him after adding James and Bosh, then realized they had seriously just called Stephon Marbury asking him to play a small role on a team competing for a championship. Then they probably shared a hearty belly-laugh and ate tuna salad sandwiches before moving on to more serious matters. That is a very feasible thing that may have happened.
The 33-year-old told The Post that the Heat contacted him in early July before LeBron James(notes), Dwyane Wade(notes) and Chris Bosh(notes) formed the Dream Team and told him they would get back to him after "they handled all the things they had to handle."
Marbury still is waiting to hear back from Heat president Pat Riley, as Miami continues filling out its roster and could use another point guard. Marbury has not heard from James or Wade.
"It's total nonsense, why would I turn down a chance to play for the Miami Heat?" an irate Marbury told The Post from Beijing. "The report was a fabrication."
And while Marbury says the report is both a fabrication and a misquote, he also clarified part of his statement to Xinhua News, telling the Post that "[his] point to the Chinese journalist was that a point guard is not essential on that unit because James and Wade handle the ball so much and he would be taking on a small role in their success, as opposed to his status in China." So basically, yeah, he might prefer starring in China to barely playing in Miami. I'm not quite sure how a report can be fabricated but also contain inaccurate quotes while still needing to be expanded upon, but I also don't have a tattoo on my scalp. Yet.
While we don't really know what's going on here, we do know one thing is true. If, somehow, Stephon Marbury ends up back in the NBA, he will be the exact same guy that left a year ago. That's kind of comforting.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...urn=nba-258164
Too bad for that motorcycle riding got he ruined what coulda been an AS career.
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