I realize that most of us already knew this, but Stephon Marbury confirmed on Monday that he is an utter moron.
“When things got bad and then worse, guys like Quentin Richardson say, ‘I don’t consider him a teammate. He let his teammates out to dry.’ He didn’t care I was his teammate when I was banished. They left me out for dead. It’s like we’re in a foxhole and I’m facing the other way. If I got shot in the head, at least you want to get shot by the enemy. I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn’t even give me an honorable death.”
I am not going to criticize Marbury for lashing out as his teammates or the organization. The Knicks are as culpable in this situation as Starbury is. (After all, they were the one that signed him in the first place.) But it’s completely inappropriate for Marbury to invoke images of soldiers shooting each other in a foxhole when this country is fighting two wars.
This might be worse than Kellen Winslow’s ‘I am a soldier’ tirade. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Marbury hasn’t spent any time in the armed forces. Thus far, he has earned $130,275,320 in his career and stands to make another $21,937,500 this season. In fact, the Knicks are considering giving him most of that salary just to go away.
Conversely, the salary range for enlisted soldiers is $15,276 to $67,104.
Athletes, please stop comparing yourselves to soldiers. You aren’t soldiers. There aren’t any bullets whizzing by your heads and you aren’t putting your lives on the line. You get paid an enormous amount of money to play a game, and you should show our veterans the proper respect. That starts with not using homicidal military comparisons when your teammates say something that you don’t like.
I’m sorry, Stephon, but you, sir, are an idiot.
he proves it again!
I’m not going to try in argue against the point you make. However, I don’t think athletes are trying to insult men and women who are in the armed forces when they use military analogies. I think they feel when they are on a playing field they are in an athletic battle. Of course it does not compare to actual warfare, but I don’t think they are trying to demean what our armed forces are engaged in. I think the Knicks should let Marbury go and be done with him. Then we don’t have to listen to the nonsense that is going on in the big apple. I enjoyed your post.
I don’t think he was trying to demean soldiers, either. I just don’t like it when athletes compare themselves to the good men and women that serve in the military.
The guy is making $21 million for doing nothing this season and he’s comparing himself to a soldier that was shot in the back of the head by a member of his own squad?!? Does he really think it’s appropriate to compare Quentin Richardson to a murdering soldier?