Posted by 4949:

Posted by TMS:

i don't think a true rebuild starts until Steph is off this team

They are rebuilding, with or without him on the roster. He can cry and ball all he wants to, but it's happening.

Marbs is not crying right now, but it doesn't matter either way... we need to remove the name from this franchise, for as much of a psychological & symbolic move as anything else... keeping him here serves no purpose at all... who the hell cares if we win a couple more games w/him & then he walks in the offseason? does that help this franchise in any way? i'm willing to bet that MDA & a good portion of the Knicks players want Steph gone, & that enough is reason to justify buying him out... u can't breed team unity when u have a constant dark cloud looming everything ur trying to build up.

Well, in thinking about it, Marbury is already damaging the coach's reputation and the coach is forced to pull poor old Walsh into it also and we can see that Walsh is taking cautionary steps right now. So you have confirmed that it is psychological damage in this thread, when I asked you in another. That's all I need to know.

Screw the symbolism. I think it's about time we follow through on things from now on, but damage to our young guys is well worth paying 21 million for to save.

So far they are either all up and working or down and barely working. At least it seems to be half the time they are up, so I look forward to decent record this year.

nix, you make too much sense...