Is Stephon Marbury More Deranged Than Ron Artest?

I only caught about ten minutes of Stephon Marbury's bizarre 24-hour performance on UStream.tv, but the small segment I watched made the Michael Jackson memorial look downright dignified. Some things in life, Steph, are meant to be private. 

Still Crazy After All These Years

Ron Artest's life-long decent into crazy has been well-documented. That he's bat-shit insane is nothing new. Last night, however, while explaining his recent less, well, combative on-court behavior, Artest dipped his finger, once again, into his personal, seemingly limitless, reserve of madness. The result is something spectacular, kind of like listening to a teenager hopped up on Ritalin giving a third-hand account of  something his cousin in Baltimore may or may not have witnessed once. 



"It went right through his heart, and he died. Right on the court." Priceless.

UPDATE: Although there is no way to know if Artest was there or not, this crazy story is, apparently, true.

A 19-year-old basketball player from Queens was fatally stabbed with a broken-off table leg today after a fight broke out during a basketball tournament, the police said.

The player, Lloyd Newton, was stabbed in the back with a leg from the scorer's table at the championship game of a Y.M.C.A.-sponsored tournament at the Niagara Falls Boys and Girls Club, the police in Niagara Falls said.

"An argument ensued about the score," Capt. Louis Curcione said, adding that one of the teams "thought they were getting gypped."

"A fight broke out between the players and about 40 fans in the stands," he said. "In the course of the fight, one person was stabbed in the back."

Mr. Newton was taken to the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Brian C. Young, 16, of Niagara Falls, has been charged with second-degree murder. He was being held at the Niagara Falls jail pending his arraignment in city court today.

Out-Blagoing Blagojevich

Stephon Marbury continues to demonstrate his grasp of reality is even more tenuous than Rod Blagojevich’s. Despite numerous reports to the contrary, Steph continues to insist teams are very much interested in his services, even though the Knicks refuse to buy out the last year of his contract.  

It's exactly this kind of crazy that got Steph into this mess in the first place.