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Steph really carried the Celtics tonight with his 2 points on 1-4 shooting in 15 minutes...
i just ordered some new clothing from http://starbury.com/....the greatest site on the internet.
*waits for the draft*
I went to the website, because I wanted to buy more of his shoes. But they only had 2 styles available. Am I missing something?
Also, is the Starbury stuff still available at Steve and Barry's?
Did you go today? i just went on five seconds ago and i saw five styles.
Anyone every notice how even when Marbury does miss a shot, its just barely off?
wtf is barely missing???lmao, hittin the rim??
Yeah, I was just on there. They only had the Starbury Skurban running shoe and the Starbury street shoe.
Whoa, thats weird. i just went on and saw the same thing. Just 5min ago i saw starburys that looked like pumas.
Oh wait, i went to the clip thing they had on the front page and clicked on footwear,.
MSG gets a little touchy when it comes to his terrible taste in clothing....
anybody else notice how smoothly the boston offense runs with marbury running it?
Which part of the Strawbury catalogue is that shirt in?i just ordered some new clothing from http://starbury.com/....the greatest site on the internet.
*waits for the draft*
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/129568752Bill Russell believes Stephon Marbury can continue to help the Celtics in the playoffs - if he's able to get over what the Knicks did to him.
"If it's up to the team, he'll have a positive effect," the 75- year-old NBA legend told The Post yesterday at the NBA Store in midtown.
"But you don't know how much he's been damaged psychologically playing here."
"Here" of course, is with the Knicks, where his rocky tenure came to a disastrous end when it became clear that coach Mike D'Antoni had no intention of playing him and team president Donnie Walsh long refused to buy him out of his $21 million contract.
When asked if he thought the point guard indeed had been "damaged psychologically" by the Knicks, Russell said: "He may have been. No matter how strong you are, that kind of stuff that went on this season was so ridiculous."
After suiting up in the preseason, Marbury was banished to the bench and later told to stay away from the team before finally being bought out and signing with the Celtics on Feb. 27.
"I think what the Knicks did to him, having the whole thing play out in the papers [was wrong]," said Russell, who signed copies of his book about Red Auerbach, Me and Red: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend.
"I think he and the coach had had a relationship in Phoenix and the coach said, 'I don't want you here.' That's the impression I got. The fact that he knew he wasn't wanted, it doesn't matter who started it."
And Russell isn't surprised Marbury has blended in well with his new team. He credited Boston coach Doc Rivers with easing the transition.
"I think Doc did a good job not putting undue pressure on him to go out and be an all-star," Russell said. "I would not put pressure on him to save the ship."
Marbury largely has served as a backup to Rajon Rondo, who helped Boston to the NBA crown last year. While the Celtics are trying to repeat, Russell led them to eight straight titles from 1959-66.
"For us it was routine," said Russell, who won 11 championships in Boston.
Russell realizes it will be a tougher task without Kevin Garnett, out since late in the regular season with a knee injury.
"It's a different team without him," Russell said.
It's different with Marbury, too.
I've read that Bill Russell article a few days ago. Unless Russell was misquoted he should be drug tested after that comment. The man is losing it. Lots of seniors have memory issues. He should get checked out.
There's no doubt that D'Antoni and Walsh could have handled the Marbury situation better then they did, but Russell or the writer made it sound as if the Knicks refusal to [Start] Marbury was the cause of his mental meltdown. Enough of the excuses. Now its being said that Marbury isn't playing well because he's playing with scrubs. Really? Didn't this team win a championship last season? That's like saying if you get demoted on your job that you wont be able to function, even if the pay is the same. It's time to kill all dick ridery. Put it to bed.
It wasn't the Knicks' refusal to start Marbury, it was the whole situation. All the mind games.
First, they say that he's a part of the team, that they have confidence in him. Even though they have no intention of playing him.
Then, they bench him for Chris Duhon in preseason (which Marbury accepted). Even though Marbury started his entire career, and is obviously the superior talent.
1st game of the regular season, D'antoni decides not to play him at all, without letting Starbury know. He had to sit there like a fool, waiting for D'antoni to put him the game.
D'antoni says he's not part of the future, which is a bullshit excuse, because most of the team isn't part of our future. They wouldn't buy him out, and they wouldn't play him. So he's stuck not playing basketball for half a year because of Walsh's/D'antoni's stubborness.
D'antoni obviously didn't plan on playing Starbury since he got here, seemingly just because he simply doesn't like him. Instead of being upfront from day 1, he strings Starbury along until the first day of the regular season. It was a sneaky move, and it probably did affect Marbury mentally. I think a hall of famer and 11 time champion knows enough about the NBA to be able see this.
Ugh here we go again. Look, this is the point I've made over and over again, and nobody has responded to it: What gives Marbury the RIGHT to be a starter? Every single team in the NBA has a 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th man. Every single team in the NBA allows their COACH to decide who those people are. Marbury was slated as the 12th man, end of story. That's the depth chart our coach went with. As Coach he is given the right to make such a decision. Fact is, Stephon Marbury wanted to be one of the top 5 guys, but sometimes the coach decides that he isn't going to be dissuaded by the name. Look, where I'm from, the COACH decides the depth chart, the COACH decides who plays in each game, not the player, not the reputation. I think Marbury was upset because he was seen as #3 on the NY Knicks, and NOT as Stephon Marbury, he was seen just like any other player, and that's where D'Antoni slated him, at the end of the bench.
Complain all you want about how it's unfair to Marbury, the way I see it, it's unfair to everyone else to have a guy be automatically the starter or automatically getting minutes because of his name. The Coach picked the depth chart, erase the name Marbury from your minds and look at it even-handedly. If Stephon Marbury was named John Doe, and he was slated to be the 12th man, nobody would have a problem, because that's the coach's job, to decide who the 12th man is. But, because it's Marbury, everyone takes issue.
Fact is, reasonable minds CAN differ on the issue, this argument has been posited before, it's gone nowhere. You won't convince me that they were unfair to Marbury just like I won't convince you that they were fair, we're too locked in our own dogma to see it. This is just going to turn into yet another flame war.