Published 12/1/2008
by Joe Burgett
at Bleacher Report - NBA
If you have seen the Knicks saga I feel for you, and I also feel for the Knicks fans who have had to put up with it. See Stephon Marbury has been getting screwed by Mike D'Antoni for some time now.
I know that he hated him in a Suns uniform so he got rid of him, basic move I guess. But ow the Knicks are being just plain stupid. Unlike the Suns they are keeping an unhappy Marbury, and not even playing him.
Now sure he has been asked to play a few times and declined, but who wouldn't? Marbury is getting screwed over by the Knicks and D'Antoni and I think it is just plain dumb.
See Marbury could be released or traded by the Knicks easily. The Knicks have about a 21 million dollar salary in Marbury and yet they are trading away people get ready for the 2010 free agent class that is including the likes of LeBron James and others.
But they are forgetting that it is two freakin years away. They have a small roster right now, and at the beginning of the year they seemed to have no room for ...
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