Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm  |  42 responses

Donnie Walsh Wakes Up, Realizes He Needs to Deal With This Whole Marbury Thing

by Marcel Mutoni

Three games into the fiasco, and Team Prez Donnie Walsh thinks it might finally be time for him to address the ugly cloud that’s hanging over the franchise he’s been asked to help rescue. After watching his team drop their second game of the season, Donnie says he’s ready to roll up his sleeves and clean up this mess.

From Newsday:

Walsh has no interest in trading Marbury’s expiring contract for a long-term deal (see: the Patrick Ewing trade), which would compromise their plans to get under the salary cap by 2010. “There aren’t a lot of options out there,” Walsh said.

When asked if he could envision Marbury being inactive for the entire 82-game season, Walsh replied, “No, and that’s why I’m saying I’ve got to get involved in this.”

Gee, you think so, doctor? It’s good to see that you’re paying attention to what’s going with your team, Mr. Walsh.

The good news for D’Antoni last night, is that despite the loss to Milwaukee, the “We Want Steph” chants were noticeably more docile this time around. Meaning there was no need to call anyone an marshmallow assh*le.

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  • nate Posted: Nov.3 at 12:05 pm
    how does marshmellow sound like assh*le.

  • BETCATS Posted: Nov.3 at 12:07 pm
    i smell a buyout

  • TADOne Posted: Nov.3 at 12:15 pm
    Only a month late…no big deal.

  • O-Easy Posted: Nov.3 at 12:16 pm
    Wish they would just let the man play…

  • Bryan Posted: Nov.3 at 12:17 pm
    I can’t believe how far he’s fallen and its pretty much all based on attitude. In my humble opinion (although being a lifelong knicks fan and career long Marbury fan I feel qualified) he’s still at worst the second most talented player on this team and easily the best point guard and this whole situation makes no sense. It has to be personal. He got in shape he’s not making waves he practiced hard give the guy a break. Chris Duhon is in NO way better. The object is to put points up for God’s sake and Marbury can do that can he get 25 and 10 anymore probably not but 18 and 8 is better than a lot of people. If he goes somewhere like Gstate the knicks are gonna look like assh*les mark my words.

  • Rubens Posted: Nov.3 at 12:30 pm
    Free Starbury!!!

  • GotHandles? Posted: Nov.3 at 12:33 pm
    Mardy Collins getting PT over Steph is terrible. Collins wouldn’t make the NY Liberty let alone and NBA roster and he has more airballs and botched layups than assists in the last 3 games. Sitting Steph is dumb. The guy can play and has the stamina to keep up with D’Antoni’s offense.

  • B. Long Posted: Nov.3 at 1:19 pm
    Donnie Walsh is Dubya.

  • Van G Posted: Nov.3 at 1:46 pm
    Marbury and Curry need to go! Knicks fans knew going into this season that it wasn’t going to be pretty. The best thing is to just cut the fat and let the young guns play. They are going to lose a whole lot more than they win, but the point is to build for the future. Marbury and Curry are NOT a part of the future.

  • Josh D Posted: Nov.3 at 1:48 pm
    Shame about there being no trade, if the salary cap allowed they could of traded Starbury to Oakland for Harrington or Jax

  • riggs Posted: Nov.3 at 1:51 pm
    “these people are marshmallows”

  • Diggy Posted: Nov.3 at 2:02 pm
    They should’ve let steph start the season and when the results were the same, everybody would’ve hated steph…again!

  • Gumdrop Posted: Nov.3 at 2:14 pm
    TRADE! TRADE! TRADE! DETROIT — The Detroit Pistons, a model of NBA consistency in recent years, shook things up in a major way Monday, sending All-Star point guard and former NBA finals MVP Chauncey Billups and top reserve Antonio McDyess to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for one-time league MVP Allen Iverson. The blockbuster deal comes two games into the season for Detroit, which was determined to shake up its core following a third straight exit from the Eastern Conference finals last summer. The move was confirmed by a basketball official, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the trade had not been announced. Pistons spokesman Kevin Grigg declined to comment, and messages were left for a Nuggets spokesman as well as for an agent representing Billups and McDyess. The Pistons were scheduled to play at Charlotte on Monday night, and are in Toronto on Wednesday night to play the 3-0 Raptors. The Bobcats are coached by Larry Brown, who led Billups and the Pistons to the 2004 NBA title and also guided the Iverson-led Philadelphia 76ers to a spot in the finals in 2001. The move allows Billups to move home. He was born in Denver and played his college ball at Colorado. McDyess also will be enjoying a homecoming of sorts, having been a Nugget from 1995-1997 and 1998-2002. -source: The Globe and Mail website.

  • Gumdrop Posted: Nov.3 at 2:14 pm
    Sorry, I didn’t know where else to post this.

  • Gumdrop Posted: Nov.3 at 2:17 pm
    Whoops, looks like this is already all over you website. Ha.

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Nov.3 at 2:58 pm
    …

  • Buffalo Brave Posted: Nov.3 at 3:46 pm
    How they even went into the season with him there is beyond me. If you werent gonna trade him cause you didnt want to take on salary then you should’ve bought him out from the start. Really, all this over a measley 2-3 million difference on a 20 mil buyout? It makes perfect sense for steph to want his money and ZERO sense for the knicks to posture like they did. Buy him out and get it over with. Its not complicated.

  • witness Posted: Nov.3 at 4:10 pm
    marbury is like a disease. him, randolph and curry need to go.

  • the baconator Posted: Nov.3 at 4:34 pm
    Last night’s game was a complete and utter train wreck. With the exception of Q, not a single Knicks player could buy a jumpshot. The entire Knicks organization needs to wake up and realize the only way they can actually make an impact is by getting rid of Curry, Z-Bo, and Marbury, signing an actual big man, and sitting J-Creezy’s @ss on the bench until he learns what a “good” jumpshot is

  • witness Posted: Nov.3 at 4:47 pm
    exactly baconator. but who the hell wants randloph? maybe the bulls but he’ll force del negro to commit suicide.

  • witness Posted: Nov.3 at 4:50 pm
    trade randolph and mardy collins for okafor and mohammed.

  • what Posted: Nov.3 at 5:21 pm
    I always thought Canadians talk weird but damn if y’all say “marshmallow” like “azzhole” something is seriously f-cked up.

  • Jake Posted: Nov.3 at 6:14 pm
    I wish Marbury would play, but I don’t see how Donnie Walsh is going to force D’Antoni to put him on the court. Now Isiah was another story. If the crowd chanted for Jerome James long enough, Isiah would probably give up and put him in by the fourth quarter. But it seems like 3 games isn’t long enough for D’Antoni to consider a change of plans.

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Nov.3 at 7:05 pm
    I can totally see Isiah waiting outside a phone booth to hear what happened in this meeting like DeNiro in “GoodFellas” when Tommie was supposedly getting made. “He’s gone?”

  • ALLRIGHTS Posted: Nov.3 at 7:30 pm
    Won’t be the first coach chewed up by the garden… or the last. D’Antoni is going to be exposed.

  • Dacre Posted: Nov.3 at 8:16 pm
    Russ…what if they move someone..(curry or marbury) to Denver seeing as McDyess doesn’t want to be there and would probably not even get on the plan..?!?
    I dont think this has anything to do with the new marbury (the compliant version…) but to do more with the history of the malcontent…

  • Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Nov.3 at 10:04 pm
    @ Russ: In that case, Eddy Curry would be Henry Hill.

  • CARTEL Posted: Nov.3 at 10:07 pm
    i love steph but i think he needs 2 leave da knicks…he just doesnt fit in…now i cant see them tradin steph cuz his contract is crazy and steph aint gon except a buy out unless its extremely close 2 21mil…da knicks definately can use him but he needs a supportin cast he cant be da co star…as far as im concerned isaih thomas ruined da moral of da team by tryin 2 change da dynamics of da team by tryin 2 forcebum ass CURRY 2 b an allstar and makin steph not even da 2nd option…bottomline is steph and da knicks need 2 just split

  • Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Nov.3 at 10:07 pm
    Also, as much as I like Marbury from before, I really think he needs to go. I don’t want my Starbury jersey from before go to waste though… I think I’ll just wear an open jacket to cover up the back and pretend its a John Starks jersey. That would be awesome.

  • KingJames23 Posted: Nov.3 at 11:31 pm
    the NBA is turning into drama !!

  • Money Bill Williams Posted: Nov.4 at 12:31 am
    teddy, eddy curry would be paul cicero cooking those sausages in the diner

  • niQ Posted: Nov.4 at 1:31 am
    i don’t understand why coach won’t just let him play..

  • I am the walrus Posted: Nov.4 at 1:49 am
    starbury is a marshmellow

  • chintao Posted: Nov.4 at 3:35 am
    Ahh, Teddy. Ever the loyalist. You’re such a punk that you have to pretend that a Marbury jersey is a Starks jersey? What? You don’t have an actual Starks jersey? You’re the sorriest Knick fan that ever was. Give it up and just jump wholesale to the Rockets. You don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stay with the Knicks.

  • chintao Posted: Nov.4 at 3:37 am
    Also, I think it’s funny when people say that “Marbury is not the future of the Knicks.” As true as that may be, is there anyone who really believes that Duhon is the future? At this point, playing either of these guys amounts to mere masturbation.

  • ♦MyKal♠ Posted: Nov.4 at 4:01 am
    I’ll trade my washing machine for Steph. The money matches (the washing machine is on 19.8 Mil and comes off the books at the end of the 08-09 season). It matches the team’s needs, I need an overpaid *sshole with a tattoo on his head and the Knicks need a point guard that fits in the D’Antoni style of offense. (I don’t think that Steph is an *sshole, much, it just seemed to fit the post)

  • Son of Shawn Posted: Nov.4 at 6:03 am
    Have patience Knicks fans, in January or February there´ll be a lot of teams with nothing to do for the season, and then the Starbury´s expiring contract will be a jewel that, if Donnie sells it well, can send Starb and other of the roster´s “marshmallows” to a franchise far far away

  • Son of Shawn Posted: Nov.4 at 6:05 am
    Eddy Curry comments on Van Gundy´s: “…mmmmmm, marshmallows”

  • Son of Shawn Posted: Nov.4 at 6:07 am
    Sorry, in D´antoni´s, not in Van Gundy, but it was a long time ago than the Knicks had a winning team than I can´t remember who´s coaching them last seasons, nor this

  • NBA-JERSEY-KING Posted: Nov.4 at 6:14 am
    trade him to Miami with Eddy Curry for Blount, Banks and Marion

  • Andy Posted: Nov.4 at 7:25 am
    I’m not sure what Walsh thinks is going to be gained by intervening. If Marbury suddenly gets some PT, then D’Antoni is going to look like a b***h. And it’s going to send a message that it’s ok to be an a**hole, because you’ll still get burn.

  • chintao Posted: Nov.4 at 10:45 pm
    ^ Actually, Marbury has remained above the fray in this one. He has not behaved like an a$$hole. In that respect, playing Marbury would signal teammates that NOT acting like an a$$hole will get you burn.

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