If Marbury has a starting role, it won’t be a contending team, even if it was before adding Marbury.

On paper, Marbury would be a good fit in MN or GS, although I wouldn’t want him polluting my young players.

Best fit is probably Houston.

What about Miami? That was the talk previously. I could see Starbury down there quite easily. Chamlers seems to be doing OK, but it’s hard to see Miami doing anything big this year with a rookie second rounder running the point. They’re not going to win the title this year, but they can/should be a playoff team.

It wouldnt make much sense that Walsh and the knicks dont want him to go to a team in the east, they wont even play him and consider him a cancer and what not…wouldnt they want him to go to a team they are contending with a playoff spot with assuming he’ll tear down that team?

Another source said Celtics president Danny Ainge has interest in Marbury…

I love this quote. Ainge has interest in anyone on earth that plays basketball if he (Danny) sees only the remotest possibility that this player could help our team. That’s his job. His work ethic is so good that everyone knows Danny would have interest in any player, including Marbury. I wonder if the same could be said of other GM’s. I wish it could because then the rumors would have Marbury going elsewhere and we wouldn’t need to be talking about this.

That seems obvious since nobody is allowed to unless Marbury actually gets bought out. Similarly, the Knicks can’t control where he goes, so all this talk about they won’t let him go here or there doesn’t make sense. Since nobody can even talk about or to him until and unless he gets bought out, the Knicks have absolutely zero say where he goes, their involvement only extends as far as coming to an agreement with Marbury financially. If/when that is worked out, he would be free to sign with any team in the league.

Marbury MIGHT add scoring to the bench. But, our entire team is based on Defense first. It’s said that Marbury can’t or won’t defend. The same was said of Ray Allen and Paul Pierce. Let’s say Marbury can and would defend. So we assume Marbury can score and defend. Now let’s remove Rondo from the equation. If M comes here we must assume that he will be the 1st pg off the bench. When Cassell came last year, just before the trade deadline he was never able to get the hang of Doc’s system. He couldn’t help us during the season or in the playoffs. If M comes here when will he come and will he, assuming he’s willing, be able to understand the system here? And if he does how many points will he add to the bench or how many points will he stop with his defense? The one thing M does better than any of our pg’s is take it to the basket and finish or draw fouls. This is the only thing he brings that adds to the bench. I just don’t see this deal happening. Time is better spent working with the second unit to improve their defensive mindset and I would love to see Gabe become a bigger part of the mix and give him a half season to get the experience he needs. The only addition I would make to this team is a defensive-minded big who could play near the basket and 18-20 feet out and who could be a major player in team defense; i.e., anticipating moves and taking charges or at least throw the opponents offense off on a few possesions a game. Scals could possibly be that guy. (OK now let me have it!). I don’t know enough about Joe Smith.

I don’t think the knicks are even going to buy him out, so these rumors mean nothing.

That his negatives wouldn’t overwhelm.
And yes, these rumors seem way too rumorish to mean anything.
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