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I reached Stephon Marbury by phone this morning to dig deeper into the disconnect between his current reality and the media’s memory. Now 49, Marbury sounds like a man who has found peace, yet remains fiercely protective of his narrative. He views Stefan Bondy’s critique not as a sports take, but as a failure to recognize human growth. “I can understand that there was a feeling from that time,” Marbury told me. “But I would love to sit down man to man and ask him why do you have an issue with how I cheer? Everybody will know what the true feeling really is. I don’t think I’m being celebrated, I’m showing how I feel about my hometown team. It’s so new.”
“What’s the story? This is the new story. This is Stephon Marbury the person, not Stephon Marbury the player,” he emphasized. “Athletes have a voice and you no longer can tear people down just because of past mistakes.” He ended our call with a pointed message regarding the “gatekeeping” of New York sports culture: “And for the record, if you were not born on New York soil and you’re writing about New York kids, make sure you keep the volume down.”
Kevin Garnett: “I’m still friends with Sam Cassell, Spreewell, Gary Trent, T-Hudson, and Trenton Hassell. Those are my guys. Whenever I see any of the guys — Wally, too — I haven’t seen Wally since he’s been doing his CBS stuff, but I see he’s killing it on podcasting and broadcasting. That doesn’t surprise me. Wally always spoke well and knew how to do great interviews. Whenever I see any of the guys, man, it’s all love. Steph — when I see Steph, I said... I went to China, ran into Steph, saw him. We did an event together. It was dope. It was dope to kind of go to the side. We went to dinner, chopped it up like some real ones, cleared a lot of space, a lot of dead air that needed to be cleared, and got on the same page.
Kevin Garnett: So I wanted to soak up all of that. I wanted to soak up, you know, what did I need to do to change the trajectory and to make the Timberwolves like how I’m looking at the Twins when they talk about Kirby Puckett, or when they talking about the Vikings and Randy Moss, or when they talking about albums and sales and, you know, just excellence. That’s what I wanted Minneapolis to be. And then Steph comes here. Do you understand? Not only trying to make the league, but we make the league, and then my best friend in life—come on, man. Steph, I’m still mad at Steph about that. Shout out to Steph, though. My dog. We’ve already talked. Yeah. Bygones, bygones. We grown now.
The NBA announced on Monday that basketball legends Tim Hardaway Sr, Stephon Marbury, Shawn Marion, Shaquille O'Neal, Mitch Richmond and Deron Williams will headline the first-ever NBA House event to be held in China, set to take place in Macao from Oct 8 – 12. An interactive fan event and immersive basketball experience celebrating the convergence of basketball, music, fashion and technology, NBA House will be held at The Venetian, Macao, in conjunction with the NBA China Games 2025 presented by Taobao 88VIP.
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Jorge Sierra: Stephen Curry passed Stephon Marbury in assists last night and is now Top 30 on the all-time list. Also: CJ McCollum is Top 20 in three-pointers ahead of Joe Johnson.
“I want to drop it next summer,” Starbury says about the potential return of Starbury. “Because after 2025, going into 2030, we’re going to see a whole new breed of athletes.”
When it came to his original deal, Marbury says he took no money from an actual base-salary contract. “I only made money on a royalty basis,” he says. “And I did that specifically because I wanted people to know my commitment to the people. It was really for the people.”
Al Harrington: So I go over, and Steph's on the phone. He had a crib in Atlanta for the summer. He had the drop-top Benz 600, just leaning on it, talking on the phone. I go talk to my cousin, then I start talking to Steph. He asks, "What you doing in town?" I say, "I'm visiting Georgia Tech." And he’s like, "How much they paying you?" I'm like, "Paying me for what?" He's like, "To go to school." I say, "They ain't paying me nothing." He says, "You going to school for free?" I say, "I ain't commit yet." He was like, "Bro—uh, what is his name? Oh my God, I just saw the coach the other day. I just saw him two days ago." Steph was about to lose it—he was like, "Call him!" I can’t remember his name, but we called him. Steph was like, "Okay, okay, okay." Then the coach says, "Al, I’ll see you in the morning." We hung up the phone, and... I ain't gonna say what they offered me, but they made something make sense. If I was gonna go to school, I should have gone, you know what I'm saying? I didn’t go, obviously.
Al Harrington: "Stephon Marbury convinced me to come to China. That's when I learned 'all money ain't good money'. They offered me a $3 million contract. That's good, that's great money, right? When I got there, I knew. As soon as I landed, as I was coming out to the sky and I looked out the window I was like 'Oh hell no'. Where am I landing? So I was in a five-star hotel, but the hotel was terrible, it was so bad, dog. So I go upstairs to eat, they got like a buffet and they got a buffet that rotates, and bro it got like monkey brains on it, it's like 'oh what the hell!' I called my agent and I was like you have to tell them that there has to be a better hotel than this, there's no way this is the best hotel."
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New York Knicks PR: Jalen Brunson registered 42 points and 10 assists tonight against Houston. He joins Richie Guerin, Walt Frazier, Bernard King, Stephon Marbury and Trey Burke as the only Knicks to record 40+ points and 10+ assists in a game.
American former basketball player Stephon Marbury said he had filed reports to police in Hong Kong and mainland China over claims made about him on Chinese social media. Ex-NBA star Marbury, who is a Hong Kong resident through the city’s Top Talent Pass Scheme, released a statement on Sunday after accusations were posted on Douyin, the Chinese sister app of TikTok. The Douyin account, which had about 15,400 followers as of Sunday, purported to belong to a man named Andy, who claimed to be Marbury’s personal assistant for several years from 2014.
Marbury’s agent made a statement denying the allegations as well as others made on Chinese social media platform RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu. “Recently, the Douyin account ‘Former Personal Assistant of Marbury’ and the Xiaohongshu account ‘Andy’ released a series of false information about Mr Marbury’s use of banned drugs and his alleged sexual assault,” the statement read.
Stephon Marbury: I think that as a player, LeBron is the most all-around basketball player to ever touch a basketball. There’s nobody like him. Magic was that for me, but then I saw LeBron and what he’s done. You know, on the winning side, as far as playing, taking everything into account—he’s incredible. "But as far as basketball players go—come on, man—you shouldn’t even be mentioning him in the same breath as Michael Jordan.