September 13, 2007
Marbury Laughs, Sings, Admits to Luring Intern Into Car
Stephon Marbury turned in a typical performance during and after his testimony at the sexual harassment trial that pits former Knicks marketing executive Anucha Browne Sanders against Knicks president and coach Isiah Thomas. And by typical, we mean that he testified that when he first found out about the lawsuit, he "laughed" - "I meant it was more of a joke than anything" - and treated reporters to some singing when they questioned him.
Marbury also admitted to "luring one of Browne Sanders' interns" into his truck, though he didn't admit to having sex with her, saying, "We got together right across the street." Browne Sanders had testified earlier about the intern, who told her that she had sex with Marbury. She said the intern told her, "Anucha, if it was anyone else I would have walked away. I felt like I had to." The Daily News noted that Browne Sanders "added, 'She basically did whatever he asked her to do. She considered it to be consensual because she agreed to get in the car.'" Browne Sanders reported the incident to management, but they never questioned Marbury.
Marbury initially said that he didn't hate Browne Sanders, but then later admitted that he had been angry at her for not giving him more seasons passes as well as an incident involving his cousin, who had worked under Browne Sanders and later fired for forging time sheets: "I said a lot of different things... I said she doesn't run s--- -.... I may have said f--- her. I didn't call her a black bitch" (one of her claims). He also defended Thomas, saying that it was unlike the coach to swear, "That's not his style."
After his half-hour of testimony, Marbury told reporters, "Man, money makes you do crazy things...I'm talking about that man who tried to jump off the thing for the cash." And outside the courthouse, it became the media attention caused Marbury to show his colorful personality. From Newsday columnist Shaun Powell:
Surrounded by cameras, Marbury left the courthouse and strutted down Reade Street, not saying much at first. Then he broke into a Chris Brown song. Then he poked fun at a reporter's shoes, giggling and teasing and pointing. Then he resumed singing, only louder. A passer-by asked: "Hey Steph, who has the better jump shot, Anucha or Isiah?"In her testimony, Browne Sanders also said that when she complained to Madison Square Garden president Steve Mills about Marbury calling her a "black bitch," Mills apparently said, ""Isiah Thomas is going to start a rumor about you having an affair with... another employee in the office." When Browne Sanders asked if that was a threat and if she needed to hire a lawyer."Uhhh, let me think about that one," said Marbury, with a grin. "Hmmmm."
Then he started singing again.
After four blocks, he finally reached his car, a purple Rolls Royce, which slowly pulled out of the parking lot with Marbury in the backseat. Then it stopped. Marbury stepped out and demanded to have his picture taken with another reporter. More laughter from Steph. Then he stepped back into the Rolls, rolled down the window and revealed how "grrrreat" he felt.
Thomas as well as Madison Square Garden, who was also sued, are trying to argue that Browne Sanders was not sexually harassed and that she was fired because of poor job performance. However, she was given bonuses and raises.
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dolan has done a great job of building the Knicks - from the ground up - into a franchise consisting of some of the craziest people around
I'm so happy that I'm not a Knicks fan.
Hey Steph, just in case you read this -
You really had a great idea with your Starbury athletic shoes. Most of them cost only around 15 bucks, yet by all accounts are fully comparable in quality to brands costing several times as much. Trouble is, you've left me and millions of other people hanging in the wind, so to speak, by not offering them in wide widths. Lots and lots of people have wide feet and we're not freaks or anything (not most of us, at least). Thank you for your consideration.
this just gets better and better.
note to self, to save myself from future aggravation, don't hire black people.
Don't even associate with black people. Unless they are on your iPod.
I'm so depressed I am a Knicks fan. Starbury is doing some serious blow, that's the only explaination why he's acting like a freaking lunatic.
Heh, [1]. Very true.
Maybe that's why the Rangers picked up Sean Avery, is so they can compete in the "crazy" department.
is "sean avery" black?
Steph is one crazy dude. The Knicks front office seems like a script for a Melrose Place-ish sleazy drama. And oh yeah, isn't the season supposed to start soon?
Man I'm glad I'm not a Knicks fan.
I was watching this old episode of the practice and there was this premise were a black man kills another man and his defense is that He's black. That's what blacks do. It's in their genes and culture. you can't fight it. blacks today have been bred by the white slave owners to be the vicious rotweiller progeny you see today.
blacks today have been bred by the white slave owners to be the vicious rotweiller progeny you see today.
Are you nuts? People have to take responsibility for their actions. Blacks are offered every opportunity to better themselves. Not whitey's fault they don't take it! It's a currently acknowledged problem that most black men don't want to leave their ghetto mentality behind, don't want to "seem white" by conducting themselves with some dignity and professionalism. That's how they see it - even though we know that dignity and professionalism has nothing to do with race and there are sleazy whites, too - of course. Oh, but these black athletes who come into gobs of money for the first time act like lowlifes, while more and more black women are getting educations and making something of themselves. Except, of course, anyone involved in the rap music industry.
Why can't everyone just do what's right and NOT expect favors, nor take advantage of others? Sleazebags have to always try to get over on people? Ugh, it makes me sick.
niggaz
yah im sure all these interns and cousins were well qualified for these jobs...the color of their skin had nothing to do with it..mhmm
Whenever I read all these racist comments, it makes me sincerely wish that Osama would hurry up and come back to finish off the people of this city.
i know what u mean, #14
i mean, ur so damn perfect...hoping for mass murder in NYC and all
i wish there were more of you...and less of "them"
I can't figure out how Marbury has anything to do with this case.
that's what I'm thinking, can't they call another witness?
marbury is thomas's character witness
how funny is that
Peter, good luck with your station wagon feet.
i love black people!
I hope this woman gets the recognition she deserves, and subsecuently not only wind the case, and get her job back, but also sens a message of professionalism to all abusers.
......And what does this have to do with race?
Thomas and Marbury must go.
Men of this kind are just plain lazy - it's purely genetic. Most of them just go through life looking for the quick hustle - and that's a fact.
This is an absolute disgrace no matter what the color. The good old boys mentality goes unchecked because they are athletes. Race does not matter.
Marbury and his car sexcapade, sloppy seconds with an intern, that his relative was also having sex with .......
Yeah that's what I want in a sport idol for an adolescent.
Parents need to tell their kids that sports figures are not role models. They are merely people that play a sport well. Look elsewhere for someone to look up to.
interesting how marbury, unabashedly conscious man of low morality, has inspired his brethren to write, i.e. those, white or black who would take up the well-worn tactic of metastasizing one idiot's behavior to the level of applied racial identity.
isn't this gotham city, home of the (now ersatz?) literati leisure class?
as long as you derive your value from denigrating the acknowledged lowest of people, then, yep, many black people will provide good fodder for you. (many white people, too, though I don't think you'd see them. many...um, people). nevertheless... the question remains: why would you feel the need to differentiate yourself from garbage, that difference supposing to be pretty darned obvious?
if whiteness has such implicitly high moral value (we'll not consider gov't officials), then be well with your victory.