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Marbury (Mid-Exit Beg) on D'Antoni: 'I Wouldn't Trust Him to Walk My Dog Across the Street'

The Stephon Marbury Brothers Flying Circus that has encompassed the New York Knicks over the past, oh, I don't know, since whenever he got there seemed like it was peaking, when, as Ziller noted, Starbury refused to play even after Mike D'Antoni offered him his starting job back.

Perhaps that's because, as Steph mentioned in an hour-long interview with the New York Post, he wouldn't let D'Antoni walk his dog across the street, so deep is his suspicion of the coach. Oh, yeah, and he really wants out of New York.
In Marbury's Thanksgiving Day talk with The Post, the fallen star insisted his Knicks exile "needs to end."

"We need to separate from the relationship," he said. "The marriage is over. It's a done deal."

Marbury also revealed:

He hopes to meet with Walsh Friday.

D'Antoni told Marbury's teammates of the guard's impending exile before the season opener -- without informing him.

He never refused to play, and would have played had D'Antoni given the order.

His suspicion of D'Antoni is so deep, "I wouldn't trust him to walk my dog across the street."
Feel that buuuurn, Mike D? Yeah. And smell that? Yeah, that's the stink of stubborn desperation. And a little whiff of "crazy". Oh, and yes, you also smell the scent of stupidity, because Marbury doesn't get that the more he exacerbates this situation, the less tradeable he becomes.

I get that he's just "keeping it real" (or something) but he needs to realize that not every crazy athlete gets their way a la Crazy Pills Ron Artest. And here's the other thing Marbury might not get -- by refusing to play and then really rubbing it in to the NYC media that he doesn't trust his coach, I'm pretty sure he's violating his contract, which means that the Knicks can suspend him without pay.

And while he'll still hang around and make a big stink out of not being traded, hitting him in the wallet might be the only way to actually get him to cooperate with team policy. It makes sense just to shed him from the roster, I suppose, but if Donnie Walsh and Mike D used the starting offer as a way to trick him into a pay-less suspension, well, well played gentlemen.

Update: The Knicks have suspended Marbury one game and docked him nearly $400,000. Chump change, right?

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