Keep Waiting For Starbury’s Freedom

The chickens ain’t hatching in NYC. Everyone had assumed that because Stephon Marbury, Donnie Walsh and the union lawyer acting as Marbury’s de facto representation had a meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon something would get done. Of course, because it’s Starbury and it’s the Knicks, nothing happened. Frank Isola of the New York Daily News has the breathless reportage. ↵↵⇥The Knicks and Stephon Marbury failed to reach a resolution on the guard’s status during their much-anticipated meeting on Monday, according to Marbury’s lawyer, Hal Biagas.
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↵⇥“It’s not resolved,” Biagas said after emerging from a 35-minute meeting with Knicks president Donnie Walsh. [...] Marbury left the meeting after 15 minutes and sat in his Rolls Royce until Biagas, who works for the Players Association, exited 20 minutes later. Marbury’s driver drove to the entrance to pick up Biagas.↵↵At which point Marbury asked Biagas, “Are you going to get in the car?” In all seriousness, I honestly forget why I thought this thing would get resolved. Meetings don’t fix anything in Starbury’s world. Meetings don’t fix anything in the Knicks’ world. Ergo, meetings seem useless.
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↵I fail to see what on Earth the team could possibly be holding out for in this situation. This is no time to get stingy or proud. Sweet salvation for the fans of New York must come soon. They want to believe ... but they can’t concentrate while this joke is still drawing laugh tracks around the league.↵