Please do not use this thread to crap on Stephon the player. It's about his efforts towards Katarina relief. Katrina moves Marbury to tears Knick says he'll donate 500G to $1M
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
BY DAVID WALDSTEIN
Star-Ledger Staff
NEW YORK -- Over the past several years, Stephon Marbury has been known for his gruff exterior and guarded temperament as well as his basketball skills. But yesterday his hardened shell melted in an unprecedented outpouring of emotion in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Overwrought by the scope of the devastation along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans, the Knicks guard broke down and wept during a press conference in Manhattan to announce relief efforts by the NBA Players Association.
Saying he was constantly thinking of his three children during the unfolding disaster, the often aloof and reserved Marbury wasn't able to stop sobbing in the midst of announcing that he would donate between $500,000 and $1 million to the relief efforts.
"First of all, it's touching when you think of the little kids crying," he said as tears started streaming down his face. "I just think about my kids, about my son. You want something so bad. You see little babies floating in the river. It's amazing. It's amazing these people are still just going (on). You complain about the little things. But we're just so fortunate to breathe and walk knowing all of this is going on."
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