Stephon Marbury finished up his guest blogging week over the NY Post with this entry.  There's a lot of talk addressing his critics.  One of the most annoying things about the coverage of his blogging this week by the other blogs was how, instead of addressing what he was saying in his posts, choose to pick the words of a troll in the comments and glorify him.  The trolls words weren't even up to par with the worst Deadspin comments, and in fact would probably be considered embarrassing for an AOL Fanhouse troll, yet there they were spewed in the coverage.  Lame ya'll.  The only thing worse than an unfunny troll is quoting a troll.   Internet superstition means ya'll will be cursed with seven years of bad comments....

But the highlight of this post isn't Starbury addressing his trolls, or talking about how he's high off life (I'm thinking Steph has found God or something)... it's this line:

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.

Not the first time Steph has called out LeBron James (that's the guy on the throne at the ESPYs), but implying he's a "clown" and "the bad guy" is definitely a new level in their little feud.  Remember that it was LeBron who fired a little barb at Marbury last year, saying he couldn't imagine endorsing a $15 sneaker like Marbury.  "No, I don't think so," James said. "Me being with Nike, we hold our standards high."

At the time, it lead to this Marbury response: "I'd rather own than be owned."

I said it before: F*ck Nike's "standards".  I've owned lots of Nikes in my time, and they fall apart just as easily as the Starbury's (which have lasted me a pretty long time, surprisingly).  My $100 Nikes (that's $100 in the 90's, when that was the price for top line sneakers, including the Pippens, which were dope, and short-lived Garnetts) have fallen apart in all kinds of ways.  But I digress. 

This is good for the Knicks, in that at least the team can unite around their mutual dislike of LeBron.  Quentin Richardson might dislike King James even more so than Marbury, and it shows in his play, as he often outplays LeBron in head to head meetings.

One of the knocks against the old 90's Knicks, as hinted at by their own coach, Jeff van Gundy, is that Jordan would buddy up to people to get an edge on them.  Patrick Ewing didn't despise Jordan - in fact he agreed to a role in Space Jams, Jordan's movie (cue "I Believe I Can Fly").  So did Larry Johnson.  And Charles Oakley?  He's still rolling with Jordan everywhere he goes, forever at his side.  How much hate do you think that Knicks' team really had for Jordan?  Nowhere near as much hate as they did for the Heat, that's for sure.

So hating the King might not be such a bad thing.  Let's hope Zach Randolph starts bitching about the night LeBron stole a stripper he was talking to, and maybe this team can really gel....

PS:  I fully expect Seth to come up with reasons for why every other Knick should hate LeBron over at P&T this weekend....

Oh, double bonus: Since we are talking about Space Jams, and I did forget to post a video this week, here you go:

You know, if I did polls on my site, I might do a poll on who got off the best rhyme in this posse joint. I would be tempted to vote for B Real, if only because those were like his best rhymes ever. It's the equivalent of a having a career year in baseball. Of course, everyone came hard. And I always picture Renaldo Balkman tearing up the locker room before every Knick game like Busta does in this video. With the ski goggles on.

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