[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Danzig

iverson apologized and said it won't happen again...and funny you mention marbury hoss, i thought of him when i saw the thread.
the players union is filing a grievance, marbury said the words 'i will not play' didn't ever come out of his mouth. this has been coming for a while tho, the coach pretty much told him earlier this season that he didn't need him. seems the whole situation has been building, and perhaps handled poorly from the get-go. marbury needs to go elsewhere, and most likely will.

The Marbury situation is a strange one. He says that coach told him there were 30-35 minutes available that night if he wanted them. If that's the case, Marbury was well within his rights to say no. If the coach told him to suit up because he was playing that night and Marbury said no, that could be a problem. I can see both sides of this. The coach has told Marbury to himself and said publicly that he was not in the plans for this team. Once he did that, he created a huge problem. One side says that Marbury is being paid $21 million and as a professional, has a responsibility to be ready at all times, whether the coach decides to use him for 40 minutes, for 10 minutes, or not at all. The other side says that unless they have suspended him or he's injured, the coach has an obligation to use him if he's on the roster and ready if he gives your team it's best chance to win. Obviously, Marbury is better than whoever the 9-12 guys on the roster are so he should have been playing. The coach can't have it both ways. He can't tell a guy that's ready to play that he's not in the plans and won't play.....and then tell him be ready cause he needs him.