Starbury to play in Italy?

[dvdbumpus]

My first reaction was "Wtf?". Then upon reading the article, apparantly his wife loved their time in Italy. Could you imagine if he played there? He certainly has the talent, and in the slightly weaker league, he'd be averaging 30 pts and could potentially dominate. But, honestly, who thought Starbury was a family first kinda guy?


http://www.nypost.com/seven/07182007/sports/knicks/marbury_shocker__ill_play_in_italy_knicks_marc_ber man.htm

[Edrow]

To be honest with you, Marbury thoroughly confuses me every time he speaks. He just throws words and sentences together like he took them from a game of scrabble or something. I can't tell if the guy is serious or not. You know who it reminds me of? The Ultimate Warrior's old interviews.

"And then the stars came from heaven...and the lightning of the world....I HAVE A DREEEEEAAAAM".


That being said, I think it would be a good move for him. It would be nowhere near the magnitude of a "David Beckham sort of thing", but would still be a good move nonetheless.

Now I'm going to go post a YouTube video of The Ultimate Warrior...


-Eddie

[ziggy]

Marbury is a strange dude. On one hand he does good things like creating a low cost shoe so that kids who can't afford Air Jordans and the latest kicks from Lebron or Kobe can still have something nice. Now he talks about leaving the NBA in 2 years ( and sacrificing a buttload of money) to play ball in Italy because it would make his wife happy.

Then on the other hand he talks about swapping spit with his sister (http://www.bobcatsplanet.com/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,70/topic,4678.0) :o

[123together]

why? haha

[timang]

Marbury is a strange dude. On one hand he does good things like creating a low cost shoe so that kids who can't afford Air Jordans and the latest kicks from Lebron or Kobe can still have something nice. Now he talks about leaving the NBA in 2 years ( and sacrificing a buttload of money) to play ball in Italy because it would make his wife happy.

Then on the other hand he talks about swapping spit with his sister (http://www.bobcatsplanet.com/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,70/topic,4678.0) :o


*vomit vomit vomit*
ewwwwwww

[ALong13]

wow...that's sick...anyways Starbury in Italy, kind of shocked me, guess his exclusive deal with Steve and Barry's for shoes will be up lol. I think he'll do well there, but I just don't get why you'd want to leave the NBA for Italy...

[tamburello]

In the history of basketball, some quality American NBA players went to the Europe. But they were generally very old, at that time. Bob McAdoo went to Italy when he was 35 and retired at 41 in the same country. In the second half 90's, especially Greek teams begin bringing good players at their twilight times of their careers like Dominique Wilkins, Byron Scott, Scott Skiles. This is a preference, we have to respect his desire to meet with different cultures.

In money-wise, he can earn 4-5 millions a year easily. That's a great offer for Europe. I don't think he will be offered better than MLE by any NBA team when he'll be a FA.

[TheBeagle]

The day he begged to be traded away from his "friend" KG and Minnesota he became irrelevant as an NBA player, and he has never done anything to change that perception. Italy, Turkey, Bombay, Laos, it makes no difference to me. In a way, he's sort of the poster-child for what is wrong with the league, and how fans became disillusioned with the NBA post-Jordan. If he were to leave the NBA it would be a symbolic gesture, hopefully; that is, a beginning of the end of the "me first, team second" mentality of players of his ilk. I may be naive, but I'm starting to see a shift in that direction already with the success of the Spurs and LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Steve Nash, not to mention our Bobcats (whose success is to come!)

[Keetch]

Totally agree Beagle. The Starbury Entourage can't move away from the NBA fast enough IMO.

Telfair and Franchise too.

[dvdbumpus]

Totally agree Beagle. The Starbury Entourage can't move away from the NBA fast enough IMO.

Telfair and Franchise too.


And Kobe and AI, as well as VC


Borderlines are Zach Randolph, Gilbert, Eddy Curry, Ricky Davis.