After learning he would be relegated to coming off the bench, Stephon Dinglebury skipped Tuesday night's game in Phoenix, infuriated that head coach, Isiah Thomas was not going to start him. The Knicks have fined Marbury over $180,000 for the tantrum and it is unknown whether he will ever play another game in the blue and orange, not that there would be many teams eager to trade for him. Besides his me-first attitude and steady decline in numbers, Starbury makes @$$ tons of money, making the only reason to acquire him that fact that his contract is up in two years or that he could be bought out. A move like this could free up enough cap space in 2009 to lure the like of Andre Iguodala, Emeka Okafor, Luol Deng, or even Kobe Bryant who has the option to opt out of his contract. The cap room could even be used in 2010 in the LeBron and Dwyane sweepstakes.Of course this is Stephon Marbury we're talking about, so the drama doesn't end here. Not satisfied with the media attention that merely abandoning his team would cause, Marbury has also threatened to blackmail Isiah, stating, "Isiah has to start me. I've got so much [stuff] on Isiah and he knows it. He thinks he can [get] me. But I'll [get] him first. You have no idea what I know." What with Thomas' recent sexual harassment trial, one can only imagine the deliciously sordid tale Stephon has to tell. Was Isiah in the back of that van with Marbury and the intern? If so, how many slices of bologna were involved? Perhaps the two of them went R. Kelly on some underage ball-boys after practice. Either way, at least one of them was at one point confined in some sort of closet-like space.
