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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Stephon Marbury gave a disturbing insight into his character when he said he couldn't believe that Anucha Browne Sanders was once a college hoops star.</p>
It didn't make sense because in his macho world it's impossible to see a woman as an accomplished athlete or leading business brain.</p>
It was far easier to cast the high-powered former Knicks marketing executive as the irritating "bitch" who wouldn't bend the rules so his relatives could get freebies to a game.</p>
"Money makes you do crazy things, man," Marbury said after testifying in Browne Sanders' $10 million sexual harassment suit against Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden.</p>
You'd think all those high-priced media advisers on the Garden payroll could have thought up a better excuse.</p>
Sadly, the intellectually challenged hoops guard appears to share at least some of his sexist traits with Thomas, his boss and No. 1 fan. </p>
Browne Sanders painted a portrait of Thomas as a foul-mouthed bully who was unable to deal with smart, successful women like her.</p>
She told the jury how an organizational psychologist had been drafted to try to improve his troubled relationships with female co-workers.</p>
You don't need to be a shrink to see why Thomas and Browne Sanders clashed. Here were two attractive people who were driven, charismatic and funny. </p>
The club wasn't big enough for both of them, and Browne Sanders, vice president of marketing and a woman to boot, didn't stand a chance against the marquee-name coach. </p>
Thomas shot daggers when his accuser made the spectators laugh out loud. At one point, she delivered the crushing comment that it wasn't a big deal that the Knicks beat the Timberwolves, but that "it was a big deal for the Knicks to win" at all. </p>
It wasn't the public dis of his team that irked Thomas. It was jealousy at the attention she was getting. I half expected him to spring from his seat, stamp his feet and shout, "I'm the one who does the jokes, thank you!"</div></p>
Source: NY Daily News</p>
It didn't make sense because in his macho world it's impossible to see a woman as an accomplished athlete or leading business brain.</p>
It was far easier to cast the high-powered former Knicks marketing executive as the irritating "bitch" who wouldn't bend the rules so his relatives could get freebies to a game.</p>
"Money makes you do crazy things, man," Marbury said after testifying in Browne Sanders' $10 million sexual harassment suit against Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden.</p>
You'd think all those high-priced media advisers on the Garden payroll could have thought up a better excuse.</p>
Sadly, the intellectually challenged hoops guard appears to share at least some of his sexist traits with Thomas, his boss and No. 1 fan. </p>
Browne Sanders painted a portrait of Thomas as a foul-mouthed bully who was unable to deal with smart, successful women like her.</p>
She told the jury how an organizational psychologist had been drafted to try to improve his troubled relationships with female co-workers.</p>
You don't need to be a shrink to see why Thomas and Browne Sanders clashed. Here were two attractive people who were driven, charismatic and funny. </p>
The club wasn't big enough for both of them, and Browne Sanders, vice president of marketing and a woman to boot, didn't stand a chance against the marquee-name coach. </p>
Thomas shot daggers when his accuser made the spectators laugh out loud. At one point, she delivered the crushing comment that it wasn't a big deal that the Knicks beat the Timberwolves, but that "it was a big deal for the Knicks to win" at all. </p>
It wasn't the public dis of his team that irked Thomas. It was jealousy at the attention she was getting. I half expected him to spring from his seat, stamp his feet and shout, "I'm the one who does the jokes, thank you!"</div></p>
Source: NY Daily News</p>
