Stephon Marbury has been guest-blogging this week for Knicks beat writer Marc Berman. Marbury has filed dispatches from the road during his 38-city bus tour promoting his discount Starbury sneaker/apparel line.
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By STEPHON MARBURY
This is not TV but it is reality. My reality. And this is my outro.
Thanks for tuning in this week.
To the people who are still confused and saying this is edited by Berman, you know who you are. He wishes he could write this good (LOL). This is all the kid Stephon Marbury. Coney Islandâs finest.
I already told you where my voice comes from. Thatâs the man upstairs. I appreciate the love. I appreciate the hate. If there was no hate, we wouldnât know how to appreciate love. Hold that one.
This blog has been great because Iâm doing so many interviews this
week, it gives me another chance to talk about what I want to talk about. Not what the media thinks theyâre gonna talk about.
What Iâm doing is bigger than basketball. Trying to take what Iâm doing off the court and add it up to what Iâm doing on the court is apples and oranges. It donât add up. This movement is bigger than that.
I did an interview in Cleveland during the tour. This PR girl said that I finally made sense in that one cause I didnât make sense in the interview I did with Beck in NYC.
If my sense donât add up to yours, then pay me no mind. Feel me?
Thatâs over with. I knew Beck since I was young. We were having fun.
I do have one admission. I am high, high off of life.
I drink lifeâs happy water which is bottled at the divine source.
It goes down much smoother than “haterade.”. How does “haterade” really taste?
I guess we could ask people like Tony who called me a lowlifeâ¦and
“islesfan” who said I was drugged up.
Let me ask YOU dudes a question. How would your mother feel if someone put you on blast in all the media and said you were on drugs in front of all your co-workers, your friends and family?
What is that to say about someone? Iâm on drugs? OK.
You have to look yourself in the mirror and say I spoke about this
man and I donât even know him, just what I heard someone else
say. That’s crazy. Remember, the only truth to a rumor is âI heardâ¦â
You donât know about me.
You donât know my life.
You heard about me.
You heard about my life.
You want to make me the clownâ¦Iâm not the dude on the ESPYs, getting carried on a throne. Iâm not him. Iâm the good guy, not the bad guy. I donât want to be carried on the throneâ¦I just want to walk among the people.
I can only love y’all for hating me. But transfer hate into love, then you can help others.
Donât be mad at me for what you did to you. Donât listen to a journalist. Wanna know me. I let you get to know me this whole week. For real.
Itâs easy to hide behind a computer and alias name. I put myself out there for the world. Iâm built like that.
Tony and islefan, take your mask off and send me your e-mail
and phone number. You canât live in the dark forever. In the meantime, weâll be praying for you. We still have love for you.
Back to the tour, Cincinnati was unbelievable yesterday. I met a family who lost everything in Katrina. I asked them if they had ever seen a black card. I gave them my American Express black card to go on a shopping spree at Steve & Barryâs. They racked up on everything in my Starbury line and they got Sarah Jessica Parker’s new line too.
The lady told my brother Don that Iâm the best thing in the world.
We are touching lives and influencing families like that.
I wish I had more time to answer all of your questions.
Piper16 up in Toronto and my other Canadian peoples that posted,
Starbury will be coming. Thanx for holdin’ it down for us up there.
Peace Alessandroâ¦Iâll see you over there in Italy.
Donnie, keep spreading the good word down there in the ATL.
Barry, keep up the good work up there in the land of 10,000 lakes
with the Boys & Girls Clubs. Word life. Post your e-mail address
so we can make sure we hit you off with the gear.
Bob, my favorite TV show is “24.” No doubt.
As far as our Knick team chemistry goes, just wait and see.
For everyone that posted about Eddy Curry, just know that as Eddy continues to get an understanding, heâs the man, he will understand that his presence on both ends needs to be heartfelt and I think it will happen.
Itâs whatever coach says, I donât care. The ball will go to whoever. Iâm coming out with a childrenâs book where the ball has a personality, which is the best way I can explain how this will work next season. The ball will go into whoever’s hand he feels has the hot hand. As long as the ball is happy with a W, it doesnât matter who scores.
Basketball has been my life since I was two but it doesnât run my life anymore. I can think outside of box. I have mind of my own.
When youâre happy and your smiling, haters are frowning. When you have a clear conscious and your mind is free, others are confused. When you can see where youâre going and no longer living in the dark, others are blinded by your light.
Iâm trying to help people change the world and change the game at the same time. In the meantime, me and my family will be praying for all those who feel some type of way about me that strong.
Iâm at peace. Iâm chillin in my hotel room in a small town somewhere, lockingâem all down, thinking about how I can end this blog. My ipod is playing and one of my favorite joints from a fellow Brooklynite just came on which is how God would have me to end this blogâ¦
What More Can I Say???
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED
IS THIS NOT WHY YOU ARE HERE?
IâM NOT A BITER
IâM A WRITER FOR MYSELF AND OTHERS
I SAY A BIG VERSE IâM ONLY BIGGIN UP MY BROTHERS
BIGGIN UP MY BOROUGH
IâM BIG ENOUGH TO DO IT
IâM THAT THOROUGH
PLUS I KNOW MY OWN FLOW IS FOOLISH
SO THEM RINGS AND THINGS YOU SING ABOUT
BRINGâEM OUT
IâM BACK FOR MORE
NEW YORKâS AMBASSADOR
PRIME MINISTER BACK TO FINISH MY BUSINESS UP
WHAT MORE CAN I SAY
WHAT MORE CAN I DO
I GAVE THIS ALL TO YOU
I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE
WHAT MORE CAN I SAY TO YOU
YOU HEARD IT ALL
THE MARTHA STEWART THATâS FAR FROM JEWISH
FAR FROM A HARVARD STUDENT
JUST HAD THE BALLS TO DO IT
AND KNOW IâM NOT THRU WITH IT
IN FACT IâM JUST PREVIEWIN IT
THIS AINâT THE SHOW
IâM JUST EQâN IT
1-2 AND I WONâT STOP ABUSIN IT
THE GROUPIE GIRLS STOP FALSE ACCUSIN IT
THEY CANâT SHUT UP ME
SHUT DOWN I
NOT EVEN PE IâM A RIDER
GOD FORGIVE ME FOR MY BRASH DELIVERY
BUT I REMEMBER VIVIDLY WHAT THESE STREETS DID TO ME
SO PICTURE ME LETTING THESE CLOWNS NIT PICK AT ME
PAINT ME LIKE A PICCANY
IâM NOT THE ONE TO SCORE POINTS OFF
IN FACT I GOT A JOINT TO KNOCK YOUR POINTS OFF
I AINâT NEVER SCARED
IâM EVERYWHERE
YOU AINâT NEVER THERE
WHY WOULD I EVER CARE
POUND FOR POUND IâM THE BEST TO EVER COME AROUND HERE
EXCLUDING NOBODY
LOOK WHAT I EMBODY
THE SOUL OF A HUSTLER I REALLY RAN THE STREET
A CEOâS MIND THAT MARKETING PLAN WAS ME
ADD THAT TO THE FACT I WENT PLAT A BUNCH OF TIMES
TIMES THAT BY MY INFLUENCE ON POP CULTURE
I SUPPOSED TO BE #1 ON EVERYBODY LIST
WEâLL SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I NO LONGER EXIST