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Is it too early to start a "Bring Starbury Back to New York" campaign? Say what you will about how he basically spent his tenure with the Knicks acting as a cancer to the team; the man knows how to make a quality YouTube clip. From our previous experience with putting a camera in front of Stephon Marbury, we knew that there had to be a few gems coming out of the former All-Star's 24-hour stint doing a video podcast a couple weeks back. It may have taken a little tinkering, but sure enough a little dance interlude taken by Steph led to this:

Stephon Marbury isn't one for keeping his thoughts to himself. Even though his season is still going with the Boston Celtics as they fight to say alive against the Bulls, Marbury sat down and talked to the ESPN news show about just went wrong with his time with the Knicks. On the transition between the two teams, Marbury said, “You go from being in hell to being in heaven...It was like being in jail."

Stephon Marbury hadn't played in an NBA game in over a year, but didn't show any signs of rust as he stepped in and immediately contributed during his first game as a Celtic last night in the team's 104-99 victory over the Pacers. Marbury came off the bench and scored 8 points in 13 minutes just hours after the press conference announcing his signing with Boston had been held. Starbury (now pronounced 'STAH-berry') was having such a good night that he didn't even say anything crazy after the game. He told reporters, "It went the way I was praying for it to go...The whole satisfaction of the night for me is that we won." New Coach Doc Rivers said he was surprised and impressed by how good Marbury's timing was after so much time off. When he first entered the game at the end of the first quarter, the Boston crowd gave him a standing ovation. Such a reaction probably isn't as likely Wednesday when he returns to the area to play another team he left with its fair share of headaches, the New Jersey Nets.

While most New Yorkers are excited to bid him adios, it's possible that they'll miss Stephon Marbury's off-court antics. Okay, maybe not the (alleged) sexual harassment or (obvious) sulking, but you must admit that his 2007 appearance on Mike'd Up (video above) is the stuff of legend.

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.

Maybe Stephon Marbury willed his way into a home when he blogged earlier this week that the Starbury movement "won't stop." It appears that the World Champion Celtics are in fact interested in the Knicks exiled point guard as was reported yesterday. While the response of many to the talk that the Celtics would shake up their chemistry with someone as volatile as Marbury, ESPN gives an in-depth list of reasons why they would take him on, almost making Boston sound overconfident in their ability to make Stephon a team player with "ubuntu", the African word for unity that serves as a self-appointed label for their powerful team chemistry. While he says that being a backup in Boston is not his number one choice, Marbury tells the Post, "If the world champions have interest, how can I not? I would be honored to put on the white and green." Maybe the Celtics have the crown he feels is coming to him when he ended his blog with the Bible passage, "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which GOD has promised to those who love him."

May the Knicks-Marbury insanity never, ever end! Though Stephon Marbury has been banned from Knicks games and practices, he still opted to see his team play against the Lakers in L.A. by buying a ticket for a baseline seat (video here). Perhaps the best coverage of this comes from the Daily News' Frank Isola, who quotes Marbury as telling reporters last night: "All I've got to do is get free. Once I get free, the team I'm going to go to, I think a lot of people will be shocked. All the people that say nobody wants me on their team... I'm all of these different things...Frank Isola said I'm a cancer ... I'm doing my thing though." And when asked if basketball was no longer his thing, the point guard simply said, "I'm doing my thang."

A judge approved for Steve & Barry's, the cheap-n-chic retail chain which faced bankruptcy earlier this summer, to be acquired by two investments firms for $163 million. Newsday reports the new group, BHY S&B Holdings LLC, made up of Bay Harbor Management and York Capital (with Steve Shore and Barry Prevor as investors), will "Steve & Barry's merchandise inventories, store leases and all of Steve & Barry's intellectual property rights, including its celebrity and brand licenses." Though Sarah Jessica Parker is still on board, Stephon Marbury claims Steve & Barry's still owes him $2 million in licensing fees--plus more in roylaties--for the Starbury brand. But Newsday points out, "Under the bankruptcy proceedings, the new owners would owe Starbury nothing."