It’s so haaaaaaaard to say goodbye to yesterdaaaaaaaay.
I was one of the biggest cheerleaders for STARBURY’s return to NYC. I thought that the Garden would be the place to reinvigorate his career and put him back on top of the pack of scoring point guards. In only a few years STARBURY has gone from being considered an NBA superstar to a glorified role player. I am in denial of this this just like he is. I wanted it to work this time, back in the garden, just like back in the days…
No matter where he went I was always waiting for him to come back home and reclaim his throne.
But then he wound up in the land of lakes and Coney Island seemed so very far, far away now.
New Jersey was a poor substitute for home when the place of your dreams is right on the other side of the Lincoln Tunnel.
What prophet doesn’t have to walk though the desert to earn his chops?
It wasn’t supposed to be more of the same frustration once he touched back down at Madison Square Garden.
He was New York City’s prodigal son of the hardwood floor.
In the end I have to remain loyal to the orange, white and blue instead of any one player since the athletes change jerseys faster than if they were buying them on Delancey Street.
Will the Knicks be better after STARBURY exits? Probably so. Will N.Y.C. be better? I doubt it.
I don’t feel quite the same loyalty to Starbury or for that matter to the K-Bockers but I do feel bad for Stephon… he has the skills and stats to match his G.M. but he doesn’t have the personality to seize the reins as a leader (which is different from dominating the ball on each possession)… My sense is that he’s never been in one place long enough to learn how to win in the NBA — 195 games played, not even 2 1/2 seasons, is his longest tenure with one team (Suns), and he’s been with the Knicks 189 games now.
As for his G.M.: Isiah Thomas, P-City’s Chi-Town homie, is like a builder who insists on adding a penthouse even as tears out the foundation. The only logical explanation is that he’s actually on the payroll of other teams around the league (Suns, Bulls, Magic, to name three that he’s helped improve). Enough can’t be said about how completely he’s ruined the Knicks… and I too was excited when he got Marbury three years ago.
Now the coach… there have been worse one-year coaching jobs in the history of professional sports, but none have cost $10 million per. Larry Brown is a great, but with an NBA title under his belt he no longer has enough motivation to turn around a team, and with 30 years of job-hopping under his belt his words (outside of on-floor basketball instruction) carry no credibility.
Marbury isn’t the kind to rise above all that. I hope he lands somewhere that gives him the chance to shine. But nobody better be looking for a savior, ’cause Stephon ain’t it.
ha-ha-ha-ha
The Bulls are in the Playoffs. The Knicks are in the Lottery!
And Isiah should get a lot of credit for the Bulls success, ‘s all I’m sayin’
Just count yourself lucky that you at least have a team to back up. It’s not like the Bullets did much, but I can’t root for the Wizards…they got rid of Juan Dixon for one, two: the same people that root for them root for the Redskins…Don’t mind me…just a the lamenting of a smaller market resident.