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martin
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http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/basketball/knicks/blog/crawford/2008/10/getting_the_story_straight.html
Getting the story straight
First things first . . . let's talk about the report that's making some national headlines.
The headlines read, "Crawford Doesn't Want Marbury Around." So if you read the story that came out in Marc Berman's blog, he goes on to say that while a writer was in front of Stephon's locker when Steph got out the shower, that there was some sort of argument and I'm in the background telling people to watch those guys argue.
Problem is the story WASN'T TRUE!!!
When Steph came out of the shower I was already gone out of the locker room! I did come back in the locker room to get my cell phone that I had forgot. I saw a lot of reporters around Steph's locker (they are always there) and I picked up my cell phone and left...So when I heard about this the next day, I went and told Steph abut what Berman had wrote and told him that it wasn't true. Steph wasn't worried about it, but I didn't want him to have to read something like that before I could talk to him. That's how teams fall apart.
So after practice on Wednesday I planned on asking Berman about this blog or whatever he wrote. In typical Berman fashion after he writes something like this, he doesn't come the next day...LOL. And Berman is actually a good guy, but I guess he needed something to write.
But, anyway, today Berman does come to practice and afterwards he's interviewing Coach Dantoni and I go up and tap him. He stayed with his interview, so our PR person, Jonathan Supranowitz, goes and tells Berman that I want to talk to him. So when Berman's finished, he comes over and the first thing he does is apoligize.
I say, "Marc, you can say I'm terrible, I'm weak, I'm a bad player...anything.You have that right. But don't lie on me."
I explain the situation to him and the same story from the locker room that night that I just told you guys and he says, "I was told that's what happened." I said, "So you didn't actually see it? This is just what you've been told. You've been around me four years, have I EVER did anything like throw a teammate under the bus?" He says "No," so then I said, "So why would I do it now? Why, when were trying to build team chemistry, do something like that?"
He couldn't really answer me, so I said, "Well, now I'm going to have to write about you on my blog." So there it is! Haaa...
Other then that, let me answer some of your questions and the comments that I've seen:
I think I'm going to be a great fit for the system. It's a lot of catch and shoot and that's fine, but I'll be able to make plays for myself and other people at different parts of the game...You guys shouldn't get to uptight by what your seeing now. It's PRESEASON!!!!. If we went 7-0 right now, that doesn't mean we're gonna be in the playoffs and if we go 0-7 that doesn't mean we won't....We will be exciting and we will win our share of games, but right now coach is trying to build everyone's confidence. So you'll see everyone taking shots or doing things that you're not used to seeing. But.Oct 29th things are for real...Judge us from there.
Oh yea, Baby Creezy, thanks for the youtube mix you did. I had already checked it out and it was one of my favorites from before.
JC
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10/16/2008 5:27 PM
