Message from discussion MARBURY SPEAKS

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From: Pablo <pab...@stwing.spmBGone.org>
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Subject: Re: MARBURY SPEAKS
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:48:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Syfo-Dyas wrote:
> By MARC BERMAN
>
> Had Thomas stayed in power, Marbury said he knows his contract would
> have been bought out after the season. In an interview with The Post
> yesterday, Marbury said his contract was nearly bought out in November
> amidst the Nov. 13 Phoenix fiasco, when Marbury left the Knicks
> reportedly because he wasn't going to start anymore. 
>
> According to Marbury, Thomas did not just want him out of the starting
> lineup for Mardy CollinsMardy Collins  in November, Thomas wanted him
> out of the organization and sent him home to have his contract bought
> out. Marbury said he still doesn't know how things changed the next
> day, when summoned back to Phoenix, the talk of a buyout history. 
>

Not to defend Marbury's actions, but this is actually a plausible 
explaination for Marbury's disappearance, and his subsequent re-insertion 
into the lineup.  If Thomas says to Marbs, "you're fired, go home," it 
seems like a reasonable thing to comply.  If subsequently it turns out 
that Isiah didn't in fact have the power to buy Marbury out, since as we 
speculated, he appeared to be handcuffed last season, it makes sense that 
Marbury be allowed to rejoin the team.

Marbury's clearly a nutcase and a loser, but I don't find it difficult to 
believe that the November fiasco was entirely due to the incompetance and 
mismanagement of Isiah Thomas.

	=p=