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PHOENIX - Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury was conspicuously AWOL from this morning's team practice, putting his Knicks' tenure in jeopardy and throwing the team's season into chaos.
On the day the Daily News reported that the club had decided to reduce Marbury's role and may be discussing severing ties with the Brooklyn-bred hoops star, head coach Isiah Thomas informed the media at this morning's shootaround that second-year guard Mardy Collins will replace Marbury in the starting lineup tonight against the Suns.
Thomas also said that everyone on the team is on notice and hinted that center Eddy Curry may be benched against Phoenix tonight.
Curry attended the shootaround, unlike Marbury, whose whereabouts as of this afternoon were unknown. Marbury made the trip out west with the team on Monday. Tonight's game is the first of a four-game road trip out west.
According to a team source, Marbury became upset after learning he would not start in Phoenix, at which point he threatened not to suit up for the game.
"Any type of penalty or suspension will be in-house and we'll try to keep it within the confines of our team. This is an in-house matter with our team and we'll keep it and leave it at that," Thomas told reporters today. "We hope to see (Marbury) tonight at the game. However, if he's not, make no mistake about it, we want him as a member of our basketball team."
Thomas was unsure if Marbury was still in the Phoenix area. There is a possibility that Marbury returned home to New York. All any of the Knick players would say was that Marbury was not on the team bus when the team departed for their morning practice at the U.S. Airways Center.
"At this point, all calls are being fielded by Jonathan Supranowitz," said Marcia Marbury, Stephon's older sister, when asked by the Daily News if her brother had returned to New York. Supranowitz is the Knicks' VP of public relations. "He's the person you should be talking with, with regards to this matter. He will be able to give you the most up-to-date info, okay?"
It has been an embarrassing summer for the storied Knicks franchise, starting with Thomas being found liable for sexually harassing former Knicks' executive Anucha Browne Sanders. During the trial, Marbury testified that he had sex with a Garden intern. There was also a bizarre television interview by Marbury with NBC in which the point guard appeared disoriented and slurred his words.
The 30-year-old Marbury is averaging 15.2 points per game this season.
No where in the article is ANY info given about how Steph might dish any dirt on Isiah.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/b...stephon_marbury_awol_from_knicks_morning.html
Stephon > Alston, Frachise, James, etcOriginally Posted by lnMyMind
houston is desperate for a pg? they have like 5 of them
Originally Posted by BullsRepeat3Peat
Ahmed Adudi:
marbury is a bum, trade him to europe!!
Knicks-Clippers Preview
By JON PALMIERI, STATS Senior Writer
Posted Nov 14 2007 1:40AM
Playing without two starters is hard enough. Now the struggling New York Knicks will be without point guard Stephon Marbury for an undetermined amount of time.
The Knicks figure to be without leading scorer Zach Randolph and Marbury again on Wednesday night when they continue a four-game road trip with a game against the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center.
Controversy seems to follow the Knicks, and their latest incident involves Marbury, who left the team before Tuesday's game at Phoenix. Marbury was absent from the morning shootaround, and failed to show up for the game.
Coach Isiah Thomas would only confirm Marbury had left and that the guard will be welcome if and when he chooses to return.
"That is an in-house matter, and we'll continue to keep it in-house,'' Thomas said after the shootaround. "However, he is welcome back, and we want him as a member of this team.''
Thomas and Marbury haven't had the best relationship, particularly since Thomas took over the dual role as head coach in addition to team president.
"It seems like he and I go through this every November, then a couple of weeks go by and we kind of kiss and make up, then we go back to the business of trying to win basketball games,'' Thomas said.
Without Marbury, Randolph and Quentin Richardson, the Knicks opened the trip with a 113-102 defeat. Jamal Crawford scored 21 points, Fred Jones added 19 and Nate Robinson had 18 as New York (2-4) lost its third straight overall and remained winless in two road games this season.
Randolph, averaging team highs of 20.3 points and 13.5 rebounds, has missed the last two games following the death of his grandmother and may not play Wednesday. Richardson, meanwhile, sat out with a hyperextended right elbow.
The Knicks also lost Mardy Collins, Marbury's replacement at the point, with a mild sprain of his right foot six minutes into the game.
Minus three starters, New York was forced to play Jones 45 minutes, 37 seconds - his highest total in three years.
Now, New York will try to end an eight-game road losing streak to the Clippers (4-2). The Knicks haven't beaten them at Los Angeles since a 77-76 victory on March 25, 1998, when the Clippers played at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
Los Angeles (4-2) opened this season with four straight wins, but dropped its second in a row Sunday, 103-95 loss to visiting Cleveland.
Sam Cassell scored 28 points to lead the Clippers. Corey Maggette had 25 points and 11 rebounds, the first time this season someone other than Chris Kaman led the team in rebounding.
"If we keep getting this effort, we'll be fine,'' Cassell said. "This was a heck of an effort. I'm mad that we lost, but if we keep playing the way we played tonight, we'll win 70 percent of our games.''
Both of the Clippers' losses have come without guard Cuttino Mobley, who suffered a strained right abductor Nov. 7 in Indiana. Mobley, third on the team in scoring with 18.3 points per game, will miss his third straight game Wednesday.
Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy is two victories from tying Jack Ramsay's franchise record of 158 set from 1972-76.
Marbury Threatens To Dish Info About Isiah Thomas
According to a person close to the team, Stephon Marbury's air rage began when Eddy Curry, following a conversation with Isiah Thomas, told Marbury that he and Marbury were being pulled from the starting lineup against the Suns.
Upon hearing that he would back up second-year guard Mardy Collins, Marbury marched toward the front of the plane to meet with Thomas. Five minutes later, an enraged Marbury told his teammates that if he wasn't starting he wouldn't suit up for the game. But it was something else Marbury said that stunned his teammates in the back of the luxury plane.
"Isiah has to start me," Marbury fumed, according to the source. "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."
It is unclear if Marbury made the same threat directly to Thomas, whose first big move as team president was trading for Marbury.