Ben Sin’s profile of Stephon Marbury for this blog back in January showed Marbury playing for China’s Foshan Dralions, living “a lonely, isolated life” in which he rarely left his hotel except to play basketball, avoiding the local cuisine, and trying to launch his Starbury sneaker brand in a country with an estimated 300 million basketball fans. Now, a new profile of Marbury in GQ covers much of the same ground, going deeper still into Marbury’s entrepreneurial ambitions, his departure from the Shanxi Brave Dragons and subsequent arrival in Foshan, and his life in China. (Also: He explains why he ate Vaseline in a now-famous web video.) Says Marbury, in the piece: “Man, China has changed everything for me. Everything.” And to quote author Wells Tower, “in person he came across as a warm, even earnest man guilelessly fond of almost everyone around him.” Below, five notable quotes — ones ranging from heartfelt to bizarre — from the article.
Marbury, always the entrepreneur, on a potential new project for his Starbury Corporation:
“It still upsets me that I didn’t get to see him,” he said. “And it was hard on my family–bringing my wife to his funeral when there’s reporters everywhere and the whole world knows I just fucked another woman. There’s nothing harder than that.”
Marbury, on attending his father’s funeral in the wake of the “Sex Truck” scandal:
“It still upsets me that I didn’t get to see him,” he said. “And it was hard on my family–bringing my wife to his funeral when there’s reporters everywhere and the whole world knows I just fucked another woman. There’s nothing harder than that.”
Marbury, on what he would do with all his money if the Starbury brand spread across the globe:
“It still upsets me that I didn’t get to see him,” he said. “And it was hard on my family–bringing my wife to his funeral when there’s reporters everywhere and the whole world knows I just fucked another woman. There’s nothing harder than that.”
Marbury, on his final season with the Knicks, after being informed by the Shanxi team that his services were no longer needed for the regular season:
“It still upsets me that I didn’t get to see him,” he said. “And it was hard on my family–bringing my wife to his funeral when there’s reporters everywhere and the whole world knows I just fucked another woman. There’s nothing harder than that.”
Marbury, on the Vaseline incident:
“It still upsets me that I didn’t get to see him,” he said. “And it was hard on my family–bringing my wife to his funeral when there’s reporters everywhere and the whole world knows I just fucked another woman. There’s nothing harder than that.”