A couple of months ago, I called Isiah Thomas a stone cold idiot.
Now, it’s Stephon Marbury’s turn.
Just when you thought that Starbury was fitting in well with Isiah Thomas’ team, Knicks owner James Dolan sat down with Thomas to talk about reducing Marbury’s playing time. The Knicks then announced that Mardy Collins would start at point guard, and Marbury would come off the bench.
After being demoted, Marbury left the Knicks in Phoenix, claiming that he had permission to leave. He then claimed that he has dirt on his head coach:
“Isiah has to start me. I’ve got so much (stuff) on Isiah and he knows it. He thinks he can (get) me. But I’ll (get) him first. You have no idea what I know.”
Huh?
The Knicks fined Marbury more than $180 K for skipping the Suns game, prompting him to hop on a plane to meet the team in Los Angeles for tonight’s game against the Clippers, but one wonders if Thomas will welcome him back after threatening to go public with whatever dirt he has on his coach.
The Knicks would like to trade him, but his outrageous salary – he’s due to make $42 million over the next two seasons – makes that difficult. He may have more value after the season, when a team trying to slash payroll might find a one-year deal worth the trouble. The team could buy him out, which would make him a free agent. It’s not like Dolan doesn’t have the cash.
Not long ago, Isiah put his foot in his mouth when he said – unprompted, mind you – that it was more disrespectful for a white man to call a black woman a bitch than it was for a black man to use the same term. Now Marbury is trying to use the media to blackmail his coach into starting him.
What’s next?
