<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Newsday - According to a person close to the negotiations, the New York Knicks have been tying to deal point guard Stephon Marbury for an unknown period of time, reported the Newsday. "This is a business and being traded is part of it," Marbury told Newsday on Tuesday. "Some of the best players that have ever played the game have been traded." However, Isiah Thomas is doing his best to squash the rumors. "A lot of teams use our newspapers to talk about the guys they want to trade," Thomas said Tuesday, "and they'll say we said it."</div> Source
