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Embattled Knicks guard Stephon Marbury seems to have come up with a new strategy in an attempt to elicit sympathy for his exile from the team since the dawn of the Mike D'Antoni era: present himself as an everyman fighting the injustices of billionaires trying to keep him down. While at a Lakers game last night, Marbury referred to the Knicks multiple times as a "billion-dollar company" and at one point said, "For me, what am I going to do against a billion-dollar company? I can't beat a billion-dollar company so I got to stand still and just wait." Marbury himself will make $21 million in a season that has yet to see him take the court. The Knicks still hope that they might be able to negotiate a deal to trade him before the March 1st deadline. He was at last night's game wearing the Laker colors of purple and gold, possibly to lure the Western powerhouse into a trade or possibly just to make it abundantly clear that he was rooting for a team that wasn't the Knicks.

Yesterday Forbes magazine, in their annual ranking of the rich, declared New York City is no longer the billionaire capital of the world. Where have all the dollar signs gone? To Moscow, of course, who beat us out by 3 billionaires (they have 74 to our 71).