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Stephen Curry passes Stephon Marbury in assists
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 on his stint in China: 'The hotel buffet had like monkey brains on it'
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: You shouldn’t even be mentioning LeBron James in the same breath as Michael Jordan
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.
Stephon Marbury on LeBron James at the Olympics: 'He was standing in front, acting like he wanted the ball, but he didn’t really want to shoot those threes'
Stephon Marbury: "As far as the Olympics go, you could watch the energy shift. The whole planet watched Steph Curry do what he did, two games in a row. Nobody else was doing that. LeBron was standing in front, acting like he wanted the ball, but he didn’t really want to shoot those threes. Stop it."
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Stephon Marbury: "They didn’t want him to play on that team. He didn’t fit for that team, and he still won, so it’s cool. MVP talks—I don’t know. I feel like they were mad he didn’t get the MVP. And this goes back to my story about the media being mad at me because they think I’m a LeBron James hater. I’m like, I love LeBron James as a basketball player. They get mad because I don’t agree that he’s better than Jordan. I’m like, I played against all three of them. I’ve never seen Jordan or Kobe shoot an air ball at the free throw line. Have you?
Marbury was a guest at the Come And Talk 2 Me podcast with Mark Jackson, where he declared the current players are lazier than their counterparts in earlier generations. "When I look at today's game, and it's a lot of stuff that I see, when I look at it, I'm like, 'Wow, these kids don't really know how to really play.' If they really knew how to play, play from angles, coming off pick-and-roll, even on defense, it would help save so much time," he said. "And I don't really so much think that they don't know how to play. I just think that they are lazy and not consistent in doing what it is that they're supposed to be doing.
Stephon Marbury: 'It was the Chinese people who helped revitalize me and pick me back up'
Stephon Marbury: When I went there, it was during a time when I was depressed, down—mentally ill. I was sick from losing family members, from everything I went through with basketball, and from losing my Starbury brand. But during that time, it was the Chinese people who helped revitalize me and pick me back up. You know what I’m saying? It wasn’t like it was a group of different people from different places. If I were in New York, it would have been a melting pot. But I was with mainly Chinese people. To have that experience and learn something completely different, be open to it, and still keep who I am—my identity, my faith, my spirit, my sense of self—that was magic, man. I can’t really express or explain it; it’s just something that only God can do.
Smith went on to question who Durant thinks is worthy of talking about him, noting that the Texas product has gotten into spats with a variety of pundits, as well as current and former NBA players, all of whom he has seemingly dismissed as unqualified to do so. He then noted that while the 36-year-old might publicly state that he doesn’t value Smith’s opinion, that hasn’t stopped him from being cast in multiple projects for Durant’s media venture. “I’ve always had profound respect for him,” Smith said. “I’m the same guy, Kevin Durant, that you asked to show up on your show, The Boardroom. I’m the same guy that you executive produced a documentary on Stephon Marbury and featured me in it. I’m that same guy that you said you don’t want anybody to listen to, yet you had me on stuff you executive produced for people to listen to. Now, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.”
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