Exiled from the NBA, vilified by the press, and ridiculed for a serious of questionable YouTube videos (eating Vaseline? c'mon!), Stephon Marbury is seeking redemption-and vast riches-in basketball-mad China. Now, if he can just win over his Communist bosses, he'll be the biggest thing since Yao Ming. Read more..
BEIJING -- Not only is former NBA star Stephon Marbury staying on with his new basketball team in China, he's planning to open dozens of stores and a distribution company here for his brand, Starbury. Read more..
Stephon Marbury hasn't lost a step off his game. Not basketball, mind you, where Marbury's career hangs in limbo because of an ongoing dispute with the Knicks, but his business game centered around his low-price Starbury brand of sneakers and apparel. Read more..
NBA star Stephon Marbury says he is trying to change the sneaker industry by marketing a less-expensive basketball shoe.
The New York Knicks guard is leading a revolution, what he calls "the Starbury Movement," against high-priced sneaker brands that market to lower-income kids. Read more..
Stephon Marbury, the wildly talented and widely criticized point guard for the New York Knicks, usually carries a Q rating commensurate with Kim Jong Il. Making max dollars and being the face of the NBA's most dysfunctional franchise will do that. But Marbury has been drawing high-profile praise in recent days for promoting a new basketball sneaker described as "revolutionary." Read more..
