Steph Said No to Dwyane Wade
Both Dwyane Wade and Pat Riley aggressively pitched Stephon Marbury to join the Heat before he reached a buyout with the Knicks. Despite their efforts, Steph obviously decided that a better chance at a championship was too much to pass up.
“We’ve always had a relationship,” said Wade. “I wasn’t playing GM. We talked about a lot of different things. Of course, we all knew that Boston was a strong thing.”
“I just felt like that the direction I wanted to go in, winning a championship was important,” Marbury said. “I knew that there was an interest for a while [in Miami]. It wasn’t something that came about at the last minute when there was talks about me getting out of my deal. Before I was able to get out of my deal, they were interested. We spoke. I told him it was more about business than anything. That was really it. We spoke about the possibility of coming [to Miami].”
Source: Real GM
March 12th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Kudabeen says:
Nova!!!
Wade’s former squad gets hearts broken…
March 12th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
LakeShow84 says:
Why Kudabeen?? Steph is shooting 29% from the floor and is about to be buried on the bench.. by who i dont know but it aint lookin so good for him..
i still dont think he can play in a real system..
Plus tell me that aint a high man in that picture above lol at least use the clear eyes Steph!
March 12th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
TJ says:
Kudabeen is talking about Villanova beating Marquette.
March 12th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
jl90 says:
thank god steph chose boston. let them deal with him. i really would take mario chalmers (along with the other heat point guards like daequan cook) WAY over marbury. former all-star status and all. he’s a headache. we already have mark blount. we can’t take on everyone’s trash
March 12th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
jones says:
He really helped the Heat out yesterday. I think it was his way of saying thanks to Wade for understanding his desire to win a championship.
Only thing is….Wade is winning the championship this year.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Max says:
>>Only thing is….Wade is winning the championship this year.<<
Even the most maniacal Flash nut-rider would need some serious drugs to believe that.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
miamiVIS3 says:
thank God!!!!!!!
March 12th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Promoman says:
Well, it’d have questionable if Steph would’ve made a difference in Miami. He hasn’t played regularly in over a year and who knows how his minutes would go given the rust? He’ll behave in Boston because of the shot at a ring and that he needs to repair his rep so he’d have a shot at a new deal. He’ll never get another $100 million deal.
March 12th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
haslem says:
he’d have more minutes
March 13th, 2009 at 7:17 am
S-SiN says:
Starbury is smth like 2 for 78 from the floor rite now for them. give dude some time, he’ll be a contributor
March 16th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
sure says:
The heat are overachieving now due to Wade’s monstrous play. With guards Chalmers and Quinn. Who are both scoring guards who can’t really score. The Heat need Ramon Sessions,J.TinsleyB.Jennings. You can’t win with a subpar/old pg. Blake,Duhon,Fisher,Bibby. Of the teams mentioned replace with the likes of talented lead guard and you’d see an immediate impact. It’s what seperates D.Will. and the Paul show from the rest. They’re point men who actually score very well (Rare commodity) Heaven sent. Even marbury he was never a pg growing up. He played it at GT but was more of a scorer. Young Kids feed the dogs and wolves with assists and ball movement and the reward is team chemistry=winning. What happend to PG’s- Floor Leaders