If there's one thing that Berman is the expert on, its the Marbury clan, so I'll believe him when he says it was his sister that gave the order not to tell Steph. Hopefully this puts it to bed:

December 05, 2007
Knicks had no choice
By MARC BERMAN

It was appalling to read published opinions that the Knicks brass did a heinous thing the other night at the Garden by not telling Stephon about his father being taken to the hospital at the end of halftime.
They had no choice.

Knicks P.R. man Jonathan Supranowitz got strict orders from Marbury's sister, Marcia, not to say anything because he's had chest pains before. Because Donald had hypertension, the family thought the worst at those times and, thankfully, the episodes were false alarms. Marcia is the leader of the Marbury clan and Stephon's business manager. How could they go against the sister's wishes, especially with everyone praying it was another false alarm. The Knicks had no choice.

It is sad that Marcia had to read about being second-guessed yesterday as she grieves. Very sad. And the club didn't find out Donald had died in the hospital until moments after the final buzzer.
Marbury found out two minutes later.

Posted by Marc Berman on December 5, 2007 08:00 AM

http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/knicks/archives/2007/12/knicks_had_no_c.html

[Edited by - vdesai on 12-05-2007 10:34 AM]

I'm glad we can stop talking about this. I cant wait for the day that we can talk about winning basketball with this franchise and not the constant circus this team always seems to be involved with.

I gotto side with Oohah on this one, and gladly. It definitely would have been pretty putrid had the rumor been true, but it's definitely good this was the case, and the Knicks were right to follow the orders of the family. It's personal business, and the Knicks shouldn't interfere with that, and by interfering, the Knicks cross a barrier of trust that's not meant to cross, and that hurts ALL credibility, if they even have any left.

Plus, if it's true that they didn't know about his death until after the buzzer, then the point is mute, considering he's had these false alarms before. From what people are saying, nobody had a clue he was gonna die.

If ANYTHING, Marbury's sister should be criticized for deciding to keep Marbury out of this by letting him play the game. Definitely unwarranted in my eyes.

I still cannot understand why completing the game for Steph was so important.
Even if this was false alarm it's just one game, just one regular working day for Steph in 10 years.
Quite stupid for his sister to do this but hay... not all people are smart and sharp to make correct decisions in this kind of situations.
It is good that MSG is not guilty party in this case.

I would be pretty upset with my sister if she pulled something like this. Really you keep this from Steph for what so he can finish out another losing game. Then again I don't know their family but still I think its pretty ****ty thing for the sister to do. I cann't imagine a child not wanting to spend those last moments with a parent.

There was a history of false alarms, and a lot of people have a certain stoicism around these things. I could see the dad being the one to not want to "bother" steph about his discomfort.

I'd guess if anyone knew Don would actually die so quickly they'd do things differently, but they probably didn't want to make a big fuss out of what they suspected to be something like heartburn or a panic attack.

Man, you guys are obssessed