<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Stephon Marbury gave a disturbing insight into his character when he said he couldn't believe that Anucha Browne Sanders was once a college hoops star.</p> It didn't make sense because in his macho world it's impossible to see a woman as an accomplished athlete or leading business brain.</p> It was far easier to cast the high-powered former Knicks marketing executive as the irritating "bitch" who wouldn't bend the rules so his relatives could get freebies to a game.</p> "Money makes you do crazy things, man," Marbury said after testifying in Browne Sanders' $10 million sexual harassment suit against Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden.</p> You'd think all those high-priced media advisers on the Garden payroll could have thought up a better excuse.</p> Sadly, the intellectually challenged hoops guard appears to share at least some of his sexist traits with Thomas, his boss and No. 1 fan. </p> Browne Sanders painted a portrait of Thomas as a foul-mouthed bully who was unable to deal with smart, successful women like her.</p> She told the jury how an organizational psychologist had been drafted to try to improve his troubled relationships with female co-workers.</p> You don't need to be a shrink to see why Thomas and Browne Sanders clashed. Here were two attractive people who were driven, charismatic and funny. </p> The club wasn't big enough for both of them, and Browne Sanders, vice president of marketing and a woman to boot, didn't stand a chance against the marquee-name coach. </p> Thomas shot daggers when his accuser made the spectators laugh out loud. At one point, she delivered the crushing comment that it wasn't a big deal that the Knicks beat the Timberwolves, but that "it was a big deal for the Knicks to win" at all. </p> It wasn't the public dis of his team that irked Thomas. It was jealousy at the attention she was getting. I half expected him to spring from his seat, stamp his feet and shout, "I'm the one who does the jokes, thank you!"</div></p> Source: NY Daily News</p>
Is this what passes for objective journalism these days? I don't like Marbury either or think what he said was right, but this is just ridiculous.
It's probably an editorial, or is certainly written that way. I don't think you'd see the AP using this as their primary source.</p> If the goal is to convince me Isiah Thomas is an asshole, I think I already knew that. </p>
LOL, this is aside from the story, but when Marbury mentioned, "Money makes you do crazy things, man", it's too bad that very reason can't be attributed to why he is acting so crazy recently.</p> Anyway, like Montaman mentions, it's hard to trust the New York press the way their "reporting" ethics are. You almost have to treat everything as pure opinion. It's kind of unavailing at times...</p>
