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Childs2Dudley
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11/28/2010  7:17 PM
Knowing Stephon Marbury, he’ll have plenty to say on all of this when he gets the chance.

But right now, as China and the rest of the basketball world remains shocked that Shanxi Zhongyu and their star import have split ways after it was understood that a three-year deal had been agreed upon during the summer, Marbury is likely still on his plane home to the States. His side of the story will have to wait for at least another day.

Shanxi’s general manager on the other hand, Zhang Aijun, lives in China and thus is not on a 12 hour plane. So as Marbury was saying goodbye to his supporters at the airport, Zhang was explaining to the media why the sudden break up:

“Marbury never signed a contract,” said Zhang to Xinhua reporter, Ma Lin. “So there was no breach of contract, nor was there any treachery.”

According to the report, Marbury and Shanxi agreed upon a general contract structure and put in a clause that would allow the two sides to cooperate with each other in marketing and branding the two time All-Star’s “Starbury” shoe line.

However, when Marbury returned to the States, he sent back another contract filled with other clauses, including one stipulating that the team must re-sign Maurice Taylor, who played with Marbury on Shanxi last year, for another year. Adding to that, Marbury also requested that the two be put up in a five-star hotel in Taiyuan, as well as an apartment complete with a private chef and maids, all at the team’s expense. The two sides met up again in Las Vegas in October while the team was training, but were unable to come to an agreement.

After Shanxi management returned to China, there was hope from the team that something would eventually be worked out, and they put in the business cooperation clause into the official contract as a sign of good faith. However, when they sent over the new version to Marbury in America, he came out with even more requests: a $30,000 insurance policy for both his wife and child and roundtrip plane tickets for everyone.

Scared that negotiations would break down completely while the two were apart, Shanxi paid for Marbury’s plane ticket and met with him in Taiyuan, along with the team’s main sponsor, Shanxi Fenjiu, and the Shanxi provincial sports bureau. After talking, the four pronged discussions ended with Shanxi deciding to give up their pursuit of Marbury.

He left Taiyuan yesterday.

Zhang praised Marbury’s 15 game stay with the team as “positive influence for the team, the fans and the league” and stated that he was “always our number one choice” for their foreign import spot. But, among the increasing list of demands that Marbury was throwing out, the team also had concerns about his offseason training regiment and conditioning coming into the season.

“We had no idea from the time when the season ended up until training if he had worked out or not. Whether he could play at a high level this season, we just didn’t know.”

“There isn’t one team that could meet these demands… There were some that we could fulfill, but we think that although foreign players can decide salary, they can’t have special or preferential treatment when it comes to deciding about life, practice, games, etc. Athletes, including foreign players, should be treated the same. Marbury’s requests made it hard for us to manage foreign players. That’s number one. Number two, last season, Taylor’s play last year was unsatisfactory, there’s no way we could have used him again for this season.”

“From the beginning of October into early November, our team was training in Las Vegas for nearly half a month. In that time, Marbury came to visit the team just once… When we wanted him to play in an exhibition game against a local team, just to play for 35 minutes, he told me that he had been working out individually before and that he couldn’t play. Even as late as November, we had no idea what is conditioning was.”

There has been rampant fan speculation that Zhang’s decision was premeditated, but Zhang was quick to brush those accusations aside, stating that it would be impossible for the team to have already made up its mind on the matter since they had hired a special consultant to help Marbury through the process of opening three Starbury stores in Taiyuan, as well as offering help and advice over marketing his own brand in China. Zhang also said that the team had offered Marbury a 50% of the brand’s stock.

“Emotionally speaking, splitting with Marbury was really tough, but as the club has to deal with reality, we have no choice but to operate within team rules."

http://www.niubball.com/2010/11/zhang-aijun-marbury-never-signed-a-contract/

I wonder if he will again blame everyone but himself, like his former boy Isiah Thomas.

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Bonn1997
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11/28/2010  7:32 PM
That's awesome since we need a backup PG
TMS
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11/28/2010  7:36 PM
LOL @ Marbury expecting star treatment in China. What a joke he's become.
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11/28/2010  7:59 PM
maids and chef's...are you serious...wow, this dude is such a joke
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11/28/2010  8:05 PM
Bonn1997 wrote:That's awesome since we need a backup PG

The great part is you really mean that.

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11/28/2010  8:10 PM
knicks1248 wrote:maids and chef's...are you serious...wow, this dude is such a joke

Starbury's Truck Episode #2 - Maid in china.

TKF on Melo ::....he is a punk, a jerk, a self absorbed out of shape, self aggrandizing, unprofessional, volume chucking coach killing playoff loser!!
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11/28/2010  9:21 PM    LAST EDITED: 11/28/2010  9:22 PM
What is there to say about this guy? He's just looney tunes. I wish he'd get things together, for his sake. For as talented as he is, I would not want him on an NBA team; that goes double for the Knicks.

Maybe this is his opportunity to play in Italy.

Wishing everyone well. I enjoyed posting here for a while, but as I matured I realized this forum isn't for me. We all evolve. Thanks for the memories everyone.
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11/28/2010  11:33 PM
Dude could pay for all that himself. Instead he pulled his Diva act.

He has sneakers to sell!

They will knock off his sneakers and sell them anyway.

The movement goes on.

"Treachery"!

Maybe time to play ball in Russia!

Someone has to make this movie about him.

Bonn1997
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11/29/2010  5:35 AM
Allanfan20 wrote:
Bonn1997 wrote:That's awesome since we need a backup PG

The great part is you really mean that.

My first hope is still that we can pry steve francis away from the Beijing Ducks.

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11/29/2010  5:55 AM
This is a shock.

Man is this hysterically funny, the requests he made. This is like an Onion story but it's his real life.

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11/29/2010  8:28 AM
idiots who like the Mo Taylor trade... MAN UP!
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11/29/2010  9:20 AM
Man, I miss the Marbury and IT days. It was like a soap opera around here everyday. Once Curry leaves, we won't have any drama on this team. All we will have left to talk about is basketball.
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11/29/2010  9:36 AM
Marbles has a man crush on Mo Taylor?
Marbles not making enough off his Chinese-made shoes to cover his own airfare to China?
Marbles' accountants don't have enough brains to realize he could recover all his travel to China as a business expense, as well as all those frequent flyer miles?
Chinese communists don't like paying for entourage expenses?
Marbles doesn't realize that the same chefs he wants in his hotel room would also be the same (if not lower) quality chefs working at Chinese buffets stateside?

Most surprising of all, Marbles didn't think to ask for a seat on the Communist Party Standing Committee? Or maybe Assistant General Secretary positions for Mo and Ben Wallace?

The hits just keep on coming... googling "AI to get Turkey kicked out of the UN for Thanksgiving"

fishmike
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11/29/2010  9:49 AM
jrodmc wrote:Marbles has a man crush on Mo Taylor?
Marbles not making enough off his Chinese-made shoes to cover his own airfare to China?
Marbles' accountants don't have enough brains to realize he could recover all his travel to China as a business expense, as well as all those frequent flyer miles?
Chinese communists don't like paying for entourage expenses?
Marbles doesn't realize that the same chefs he wants in his hotel room would also be the same (if not lower) quality chefs working at Chinese buffets stateside?

Most surprising of all, Marbles didn't think to ask for a seat on the Communist Party Standing Committee? Or maybe Assistant General Secretary positions for Mo and Ben Wallace?

The hits just keep on coming... googling "AI to get Turkey kicked out of the UN for Thanksgiving"

yea man.... you really cant make this stuff up. A Mo Taylor clause? Oh man
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11/29/2010  12:14 PM
Love this guy
I just hope that people will like me
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11/29/2010  12:39 PM
"Mar Bu Li"!
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11/29/2010  1:42 PM
jrodmc wrote:Marbles doesn't realize that the same chefs he wants in his hotel room would also be the same (if not lower) quality chefs working at Chinese buffets stateside?

at a 5 star hotel?

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jrodmc
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11/29/2010  2:26 PM
TMS wrote:
jrodmc wrote:Marbles doesn't realize that the same chefs he wants in his hotel room would also be the same (if not lower) quality chefs working at Chinese buffets stateside?

at a 5 star hotel?

Travel in the People's Republic alot, do you? 5 star in China probably means they filet the cats alive before soaking them in antifreeze...

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11/29/2010  2:35 PM
jrodmc wrote:
TMS wrote:
jrodmc wrote:Marbles doesn't realize that the same chefs he wants in his hotel room would also be the same (if not lower) quality chefs working at Chinese buffets stateside?

at a 5 star hotel?

Travel in the People's Republic alot, do you? 5 star in China probably means they filet the cats alive before soaking them in antifreeze...

My co-workers travel to china a lot and they have invited me to visit mainland china and rave about the quality of their 5-star hotels. You are probably saying this in jest. Just want to tell you that it is in poor taste.

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11/29/2010  2:37 PM
Marbles signed with another CBA team.

Has he learned the Chinese Symbol for "All Alone" yet?

OT: Marbury forces Chinese team to let him go

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