I don’t want him anymore. Take him back.
I don’t even like looking at him.

From Yahoo:
“Marbury could be seen from the public area of the workout facility wearing a white, long-sleeved T-shirt and sweatpants, jumping up and down as he took the practice court, smiling and chest-bumping with several people wearing Celtics gear. After few minutes, the automatic shades were lowered.”

I wish you the best man. This is your chance at redemption, don’t F#@* it up!

"‘Long ago Chuang Chou dreamed he was a butterfly. He was very joyful as a butterfly, well pleased with his lot, his aims fulfilled. He knew nothing of Chou the man. But shortly he awoke and found himself again to be Chuang Chou. And he could not tell whether as Chou he had dreamed he was a butterfly or whether as a butterfly he had dreamed he was Chou.’" –

Well long ago Marbury had a dream he was team player in Minny – he awoke and saw spots (starz) on his jersey and realized it was just a dream and there was no Star in Team Player or the letter "I" in TEAM. So he flew like a selfish butterfly away from the Team.

 Later on he had another dream in PHX in which once again he envisioned that he was a team player where unselfishness flowed from his inner chi’ like a river of hope. It was however an empty dream of a dry river bed of no true chi, but littered with nothing but pouting and excuses .

Ahhhh… but when he awoke one morning after flying off like a spoiled butterfly, he saw the same Spots errrrr Starz on his jersey. But now he realized he had woke up in a New York Knicks jersey (a place he called home and said he wanted to start anew!!!!!) and help his team back to glory. He noticed he had a permanent spot on his head (in the shape of a star!!!) He told Zeke he had dream of being a team player this time. Zeke immediately slapped him and told him to wake up and that this was New York and he better play like a star because he was being paid lots of money. Alas, he knew his true destiny was only to serve others as a bad example of a team player.

Soon he will slip on a green jersey full of letters and numbers, and a long history that spells nothing but TEAM.

I now close my eyes and hope I am dreaming of real butterflys because Leopards or Starz never change their spots.

Not #8. Any # but that.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;ylt=AnvTIRZY8v5A5EjHJRAJja8vLYF?slug=aw-marburyceltics022409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

is a bit too harsh for my taste.
time will tell how this unfolds.

Marbury was actually from the same draft class as Antoine along with…

…Ray Allen.

In fact, Marbury was originally picked by the Bucks at number 4 in the First Round and Ray Allen was picked by the Timberwolves at number 5. The teams swapped the 2 players on draft day along with a first round draft pick going to Minnesota and Andrew Lang going to Milwaukee.

Walker was picked at number 6 by the Celtics who received the draft pick from…

…the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavs would have got Antoine but they swapped draft picks with Boston the year before (along with another player or cash or something) and they ended up with Samaki Walker who was picked number 9. That was by far the best move that M.L. Carr made for the Celtics.

Check it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_NBA_Draft

I wonder who the additional first round pick for the T’Wolves was…?

and I’m wearing it this weekend

I think overall, people are generally excited about the Marbury signing. I know they may have those fears of him and his being a headcase lingering in the back of their minds, but overall people are pumped I believe. Here is a guy who on his best days is truly an all-star caliber player, has good career numbers, and if he can keep his nonsense at a minimum could very well make a good contribution to the team and it’s system.

Thanks for the link, it was an interesting perspective and one we’ve heard before.
Me, I like to stay positive until I’m proven wrong about something… so right now I ascribe to that other perspective, also frequently expressed around here, that this is a low-risk, high reward type of situation.

as summed up by EJ, Kenny, and Barkley (sorry if this has already been linked to elsewhere) …

http://www.nba.com/video/channels/tnt_overtime/2009/02/26/nba_20090226_top5inside_3.nba/

so check it out. Barkley: steph can say he wants to play overseas… but, he’s lying.
LMAO and hope their right.

I always wonder what happens when 2 players that have a bit of a history meet for the first time on the same team.

The one that stands out the most was Pippen and Rodman, as they had some ferocious battles dating back to the Detroit “Bad Boys” Era. Did they shake hands? Or did they have a man-hug ala Posey? I wonder how it happened.

The Marbury and House stoush last year wasn’t nearly as big, but I do remember Marbury say to House something like:

“you are caught up in basketball too much, get caught up with life”

Plus House managed to get Isiah Thomas and the entire Knicks bench riled up by rubbing in some choice words after draining a 3 pointer in front of them. They Knicks came out of the next timeout with a gang-like approach.

It will be interesting! That’s for sure.

Marbury must be siked right now, im excited to see him make backup PG’s look foolish. Jordan Farmar guarding Steph is a funny prospect for me as well.

Randy Moss or Eric Gagne?

That is the question.