<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Knicks followed their old formula last night of sleepwalking through the first half before making a game of it later. When they do that, the fans at the Garden suddenly, if fleetingly, find a whole new esteem and reason to cheer for the players on the floor. For all of them, that is, except Stephon Marbury. Marbury put on another unsightly performance for the Garden faithful last night, scoring 15 points while missing nine of 16 shots, to go with just three assists and a couple of hideous - and costly - miscues. The result was another series of Stephon salutes from the Broadway boo-birds, which only grew louder even as the Knicks got closer, and reached a crescendo when he replaced Quentin Richardson in a seven-point game with 3:12 left. "Every time you come into the game you're getting booed, but I think for myself I've just got to continue to play," Marbury said following the Knicks' 97-90 loss to the Celtics. "I'm not going to allow that to basically affect how I'm going to go out and play basketball. I've been doing this for a long time."</div> Source
