Stephon Marbury is a basketball phenomenon. Mr. Marbury has been known by the basketball world at the young age of eleven. Many pressures and confrontations have encountered Mr. Marbury throught his entire basketball career. These began when he was a young child and they still accompany him. Many people from Brooklyn, New York, the city in which Stephon Marbury was born and raised, have known about his basketball skills for an extremely long time because "...…showed first 75 words of 2079 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2079 total…talk about being traded to the New York Knicks. The trade rumors that Stephon Marbury have been talking about aren't rumors, they are a fact. "Me thinking about playing for the Knicks isn't a fantasy, That's reality" (Ryan, 56). Since he was a child, Mr. Marbury had dreamed of playing professionally near his home town in Brooklyn. He does not like the frigid temperatures in Minnesota, nor does he like to be away from his family.