The guy is an idiot, he's greedy, he's selfish, he's self absorbed and he thinks he's a lot better at everything he does than he really is. If there was ever a guy that screamed "I'm not a Celtic" it's this guy.
I'm not sure how greedy/selfish/all the other adjectives he's being. He is rightfully owed this money by the Knicks due to a contract. What's wrong with collecting it? He came into camp supposedly in great shape and he kept up his end of the contract.
Why should he take less money and make things easier for the Knicks?
Actually I think Marbury is as stupid as he is made out to be because if he was smart he would have already worked out a favorable deal and been bought out of his contract and already signed with the Celtics while accepting a role as a reserve on the best team in basketball.
What makes you think it's impossible that he can't do both? Collect his money and then go play for the best team in basketball. Just because it's not convenient to Celtic fans doesn't mean he's being an idiot about it.
Reality is that this is probably not going to happen because Marbury is too stubborn and greedy and selfish to accept less than his entire contract. But what he doesn't realize is just how stubborn this Knicks ownership is.
I just don't understand this. Why should he accept less than his entire contract?
You want to know why he is all those things, because he's not living up to his end of his contract. He hasn't given every bit of effort he can and lived up to his end of producing for the team that is paying him. Instead he's disgruntled, he's problematic, he's cancerous, he's a distraction, and he's done everything and anything he can to make it known that he doesn't want to be in New York.
So he's smart with his money is he people. Yeah, he's so smart with it he's almost made it so that he'll never earn any of it ever again playing basketball. His actions have completely sabotaged his future earnings potential in this game and especially in this league. That's stupid and that's not being smart about money.
You say he just trying to collect what is owed him. Yeah, he's trying to do it at the expense of not giving anything for the money he is receiving. How is that not just cheating the Knicks out of the mo0ney they are paying him? Sure they sent him home and agreed to pay him to stay away but that was after he had already made it clear that he was going to be a major sized pain in the ass and disrupt everything and anything he could with the team.
He's selfish because he wants all his money without haviong to do anything for it. In my world you should earn money. He's not earning a dime right now.
He's stupid because he's killed his future earnings potential as a brand sponsor and in playing basketball and because he's a fool when he talks in public.
He's stubborn because he could have taken a fair buyout and already been proving that he wasn't what he was being portrayed as being in NY. Instead he just continues to enhance the bad reputation that he has created.
You guys can look at things anyway you want about how he signed a contract and is due payment and should be able to get all that money and then be let go by NY because they don't want him and then he can play for whomever he wants. I look at it as a guy who is a scumbag who signed a contract and did everything he could to get as much of that contract as possible for the least amount of work. That's unethical and dumb and lazy and selfish in my book.
I only hope NY sticks it to him and forces him to sit out the whole year without playing and then he has to try to beg someone for a chance to prove himself next year and everyone black balls him.