Stephon Marbury has Diddy Money
The New York Post’s Page Six is running this item today about Stephon Marbury’s reported $45 million plane purchase:
MAYBE Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury should have consulted Sean Combs before he bought himself a private jet. Marbury – in the last year of his Knicks contract, which will pay him another $21 million – is said to have plunked down about $45 million for the aircraft. But Combs, who already owns a jet, isn’t using it because fuel costs have skyrocketed. The hip-hop mogul explains on Diddy Blog No. 12, which he videotaped in an airline terminal before boarding a commercial flight, “Gas prices are too mother[bleep]ing high,” Combs says, wearing an off-kilter Yankees cap. “I’ve been flying back and forth to LA pursuing my acting career. If I fly back and forth twice a month, that’s like $250,000 round trip. [Bleep] that! I’m back on American Airlines now . . . and I’m in coach!”
And we have to give credit where credit is due. The Page Six headline for this item is great: “STEPH: YA GETTIN’ IN THE JET?”
Source: NY Post
August 27th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Daily boy says:
Dat boy better quit making those financial decisions, he gone end up like Sprewell.
August 27th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Sam I Am says:
Damn Daily Boy…
Hit the PERFECT example
August 27th, 2008 at 10:39 am
heartbreaker85 says:
he’s gonna need one coz after the experiment phase with the knicks and dantoni, he’ll be jetting somewhere else- italy perhaps?
@ daily boy – you forgot the whole ‘First!’ thing man
August 27th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Mad Max says:
Spending money like diddy
Gone get shot like fiddy
August 27th, 2008 at 11:16 am
BxBaller says:
Come on guys how accurate is this? I mean, it’s coming from the NY Post. I’m just wondering why Steph needs a jet though.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am
JCarr says:
Marbury has his own jet so that American ppl or airlines wont stop him from fleeing the US for Italy. Smart move Steph.
August 27th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Jose says:
The next MC Hammer story
August 27th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
GEE...Make my funk the p-funk says:
Now he can take the jet and be like “So you gone get in or what?”
Jose most def. comment of the day lol.
Steph is looney lol.
Plain looney.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
dukesman2000 says:
Who is advising these people? Then again, who can?
August 27th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Ross says:
Imagine the cost of fuel to fly to Europe/Italy/wherever he wants to play, and back.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
weezy f says:
another dumb move…is anyone really surprised?
August 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Ian the statboy says:
another behind the scenes case shit this fool is gonna be broke by 2011
August 27th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Phileus says:
Ugh. Unless it’s for a business investment (unlikely) then I don’t get it. On top of fuel, the maintenance costs are ridiculous. Cracked windshield? 500 grand, please. Pre-flight and post-flight checkups? Hire a whole crew to do it properly, please. It goes on and on and on.
He earned his money though, so it’s his to throw away.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Joe says:
You guys don’t seem to get it, he isn’t buying this jet to fly around in. He’s buying it because he found out his “truck party” doesn’t give him enough room to manuver. He’s just going to park it in the terminal and have some private “jet parties”
August 27th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Gangsta of Love says:
Didn’t Pippen lose alot of $ when he bought a jet? I think it might have been repo’d.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
doc says:
Yall didnt knowSteph trying to fly to Mars and start his own league.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Jules says:
Is Stephon Marbury the dumbest motherf—– in the NBA? That should be Dime’s next list… Name the top ten dumbest motherf—— in the NBA… At least we know he can read though, seeing as how he took that column by Rick Reilly from about a month ago literally.
August 27th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Jules says:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3469271
August 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
jamesinva says:
who are we to judge what marbury can spend money on? its HIS dough. marbury buying a jet is like one of you broke asses spending your life savings on a pair of kicks. Marbury is just livin it up, you live once in your life, atleast before he dies he can say i did my thing and had a fun life.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
tman says:
that’s just dumb if he wants his own plane i’m sure he got bad financial advice…. I would advise my client to do a co-share with a group of members that way you don’t get hit with all those cost…
August 27th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
snook says:
maybe he should buy a new cell phone instead
August 27th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Andy says:
dude will be selling ad space on his head
August 28th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Simon says:
Gimme posts 15 and 16 for comments of the day! At least we can all admit that Starbury is definitely an entertainer, even if it’s not on the court anymore!
August 28th, 2008 at 8:57 am
gee the steph fan says:
but if JayZ bought a jet, you’d all be hanging off his nut sack, or whack ass weezie, you dudes get excited to comment on Marbury, and some of these names, whiteboys mad that Marbury banged their white snowflake. lmao. Anything Marbury does, you dickhead comment. How is he a dumbmf? He’s buying a jet, thats an investment. If Marbury is so weak, and so unimportant, why all the nut sagging when he does non basketball things? Nut huggers. Yall mad because he’s our height, and he put 40 on anyone any night. spare your remarks, I don’t check back on posts.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Derrick Rose says:
to #24… Whiteboys hate Marbury (same as anyone else) because he is a primadonna (spelling?). I have no idea what “snowflake” you are apeaking of. We hate him because he complains ALL THE TIME and has not been the best player on the court since High School (even though his MASSIVE ego tells him and other idiots differently). AND a jet is NOT A SOUND INVESTMENT UNLESS YOU ARE DIRECTLY USING IT TO MAKE MONEY. It depreciates from the second you start the engines for the first time!!! Listen to what you say before you type and enter it GEE…
August 29th, 2008 at 5:14 am
passionforpurp says:
you know marbury is doper than all you haters. brotha got bread he aint trippin!
August 29th, 2008 at 11:10 am
MOVEZ GALORE says:
thats my boy and I love his game to death but damn 45mil………and you have people who can’t pay to get on the bus or train