<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Stephon Marbury watched LeBron James host the ESPYs last weekend and apparently was amused. While guest hosting a blog for the New York Post on Friday, Marbury ripped James several different ways, seeming to call him both a bad person and a clown. Here is the quote: ?You want to make me the clown?I?m not the dude on the ESPYs, getting carried on a throne. I?m not him. I?m the good guy, not the bad guy. I don?t want to be carried on the throne?I just want to walk among the people.? I believe this goes back to the spring when Marbury got upset at some things LeBron told the New York media before a game with the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. In brief, when asked whether he would ever have discount shoes like Marbury?s year old $15 Starbury line, James pretty much said he and Nike have a higher standard. I remember the interview, I didn?t think LeBron was doing it with malice. However, it did come off like he was a taking a cheap shot at what Marbury is trying to do and sounding like a Nike elitist. Which, by the way, he is. From a public relations standpoint, the Starburys have been a hit. He was just in Cleveland promoting them this week. He says he isn?t doing it for the money, although he is surely making some, in addition to his $17 million a year salary. I do not know Marbury personally. I do know a couple of years ago, he proclaimed himself the best point guard in the NBA. I know he has a reputation around the league of sometimes being selfish. He famously has never been on a good team. Being from New York and playing for his hometown team like James, perhaps he wishes he was more well liked around the league. Perhaps he wished he got them to The Finals. Perhaps he wishes he was on Team USA. Perhaps he wishes it was him hosting the ESPYs and hosting Saturday Night Live. He does like the spotlight of television, he hosts his own show in New York. Then again, perhaps LeBron did look a bit silly with that ESPY stuff. Marbury made two appearances at Cleveland malls this week, two more promo appearances than LeBron will probably make anywhere in Northeast Ohio this summer. So he is ?walking with the people? more. And, obviously, he?s not afraid to point that out. </div> Link
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I do not know Marbury personally. I do know a couple of years ago, he proclaimed himself the best point guard in the NBA. I know he has a reputation around the league of sometimes being selfish. He famously has never been on a good team. Being from New York and playing for his hometown team like James, perhaps he wishes he was more well liked around the league. Perhaps he wished he got them to The Finals</div> And that pretty much wraps it up. I really have no clue what Marbury is going through, but he's got issues. Walk among the people? Dude drives a Benz, he should get himself a Taxi, and then he can truly say, he walks among other people.
Actually I think this is what it is: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">I believe this goes back to the spring when Marbury got upset at some things LeBron told the New York media before a game with the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. In brief, when asked whether he would ever have discount shoes like Marbury’s year old $15 Starbury line, James pretty much said he and Nike have a higher standard. I remember the interview, I didn’t think LeBron was doing it with malice. However, it did come off like he was a taking a cheap shot at what Marbury is trying to do and sounding like a Nike elitist. Which, by the way, he is. </div> I remember when that happened too.
Get the Knicks to the playoffs and you'll see how everybody will jumpback on your back. He plays for New York, If he takes the Knicks somewhere obviously it will be widely publicized and his popularity will once again boom. But the Best PG Statement and the feud with Larry Brown obviously made him seem Selfish.
<div class="quote_poster">Kidd Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">And that pretty much wraps it up. I really have no clue what Marbury is going through, but he's got issues. Walk among the people? Dude drives a Benz, he should get himself a Taxi, and then he can truly say, he walks among other people.</div> and, i know a lot of people with ordinary jobs that drive a benz. i think Marbury is one of few nba players down to earth. I have a lot of respect for him, he is always doing chairty work, he didn't sign a 10 million dollar shoe deal to help under privlaged kids, he set up barber shops to give free haircuts to underprivlaged kids, i dont see why everyone hates on him.
Marbury has really changed around my feelings about him, because it seems like he has a legitimate degree of concern and despair at the plight of some of New York's poor youth. At the very least, he's showing through his business practices that he perhaps should be a more popular player amongst low income households than should a guy like LeBron, who last year had two separate incidents (his gaffe about Marbury's shoe, and the Darfur petition) that seemed to stem from his financial connections with Nike. As far as Marbury's car goes... when you earn as much as he does, I'm not gonna begrudge him driving a nice car. He does deserve some nice things here and there, as does anybody who works at such a high level. Certainly in the grand scheme of things, a good teacher is more important than a good point guard. The teacher, however, is likely not one of the 20 or 30 greatest in their field in the entire world, which is true for Marbury as a point guard, even as maligned as he is. I know that if I personally were banking ten million per year, I'd probably buy a nice car, and a nice house, and still have enough left over to impact positive change in the world.
The good guy is showing up on television interviews high? Yeah, right, "good guy". How is LeBron a "bad guy". Jeez, just having a little fun, he's outgoing and a lot of people like him. This just sounds like pure jealousy. LeBron is everything Marbury is not as a basketball player, a celebrity and a person. This whole shoe thing has gone way over his head. Great, we get it, you started a line of affordable sneakers. Old news, get over it. I never looked at Marbury as someone who would win the citizenship award and it seems like he's trying to make this one story define himself as a person. Marbury can es my dee.
One might, might argue that showing up on TV high on whatever, or at least in such a state as to be deliberately silly or bizarre, is more defensible than parading around on a throne after a year in which warning flags have been raised that you may be greedy and calloused towards the poor. One might argue.
How many times is this story gonna be recycled. this story is old. havent we made at least 2 other threads about the nike Star feud? Oh well. But what Star is doing is what every big NBA player should do. And thats cut the middle man out.
<div class="quote_poster">AMS_ice Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Hey Marbury!.... Can you say "JEALOUS"?</div> He's not jealous, he's just triyng to put on a charade for his sneaker line. This fools pathetic, I really believed him at first that he wanted to do a good deed but now i can see it's bull-****. Walk among the people??? Kiss my ass Starbury. Dudes just putting on an act, so more people will buy his sneakers. Shaq sells his shoes real cheap to K-mart and Payless and you don't see him spreadin the word that he's one of the people. God it's so fake Starbury, get over yourself.
This guy is stupid as **** but you have to give credit to the fact that he's willing to do some extra things to help out the community.
Marbury is a close to home guy. Right now I think he is a little confused on what he wants. Who knows, tomorrow he could come out and say he is gay or he just bought an NHL team. He I think is saying things he might not mean or is saying it in the wrong way. What is wrong with not liking LeBron? I don't like LeBron to much, because he is over rated for what he can do. Don't give me the team to the east finals crap. He didn't do anything gin the finals. But I don't care about that/ Starbury doesn't like LeBron so be it. Bogut doesn't like American culture. Okay.
Marbury is a hypocrite and obviously jealous. Yeah I get LeBron's act during the Espy's might not have been charming but Marbury can be pretty annoying as well. And what does it matter that LeBron supports Nike? The guy needs to get over it.
The only reason Marbury said this is when LeBron suggested Marbury's sneakers weren't high-quality since they were $15. When asked about Marbury's sneakers, James said "Me being with Nike, we hold our standards high." And Marbury said "I would rather own than be owned." Again, not serious... just bored journalists in the offseason. Gotta love it.
Yea, but that was like at least a month ago. Why's he bringing it back up now? For someone that's devoted to such selfless causes, Marbury cares way too much about how people percieve him.
You cant really hold that against LeBron though, he was paid $90 million or whatever it was from Nike to endorse their product, he isnt exactly going to turn around and bash it. I'm sure if he wasnt locked into any contracts, he would support Marbury and his line of cheap sneakers.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">You cant really hold that against LeBron though, he was paid $90 million or whatever it was from Nike to endorse their product, he isnt exactly going to turn around and bash it. I'm sure if he wasnt locked into any contracts, he would support Marbury and his line of cheap sneakers.</div> "I would rather own than be owned."
