Junior High Antics in the NBA

Is it just us, or are the New York Knicks regressing to behavior that would even make The Seventh Grade Class Busybody shake her head and go, “Tsk, tsk boys. That is like so* immature.”

*Note: Substitute ”wicked” here if you’re envisioning a Boston-based gossiper. 

Yesterday, Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury wasn’t having fun anymore. So, he did what all kids do: He picked up his toys and went home. From Phoenix. To New York. On game day.

The reason for mounting his Huffy Bike? Coach Isiah Thomas told him he wouldn’t be playing the game against the Phoenix Suns.

Marbury said, “Yuh-huh!”

To which Thomas shot back, “Nuh-uh!”

OK, so we paraphrased a little. But that’s the essence of it.

According to the New York Daily News, the hair-pulling didn’t end there, with a source repeating Marbury’s supposed words:

“Isiah has to start me . . . I’ve got so much [stuff] on Isiah and he knows it. He thinks he can [get] me. But I’ll [get] him first. You have no idea what I know.”

Ooooooh, blackmail! Does Isiah have cooties? Does he like someone, we mean like them like them, and Marbury knows it? Did Coach Thomas reveal a secret and make Marbury cross his heart and hope to die if the word gets out? Maybe they even pricked their fingers and swore to be blood brothers, but now Marbury’s changed his mind!

This calls for a detention, perhaps even in addition to the $180K fine Marbury faces for skipping the game.  

Meanwhile, we’re going to sit back and see if the Celtics can’t make it 7-0. Ah, Schadenfreude, how bloggers (and readers like Prospero) love thee.