Originally Posted by
abcd
What you're saying is untrue,nyknicks126.None of the teams Marbury has played for won 50 games, the season after he left.When Marbury left the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves took 5 more years to make it passed the first round,and Marbury had already been to the playoffs for his first two years with the Timeberwolves.When Marbury first left the Suns, the Suns had a 29-53 record the following season,and last year, the Suns only lasted 6 games with the Spurs, the same number of games Marbury lasted against the Spurs, when the Spurs faced the Suns in 2003.And Marbury hit the game winning 3 in Game 1 of the Suns and Spurs.The only team that immediately did better when Marbury left was the Nets, and you have to take into consideration that the Nets had acquired Richard Jefferson and Kenyon Martin that following year,two guys Marbury never got to play with.Stop listening to the lies that the media say and look at the facts.You should know better to listen to the media, when they constantly were saying that the Knicks are better without Patrick Ewing-a statement that is yet to be proven true.You make a good point, a lot of this has to do with Marbury's luck.However, I don't even value the statement that every team Marbury has played for has gotten better without him, cause Minnesota's 8-35 record and New Jersey's current 18-26 record say otherwise.