On the morning of Monday, Apr. 15, Stephon Marbury’s Twitter feed was quiet. The two-time NBA All-Star hadn’t posted since Apr. 8 and, in the wake of a wild sports weekend, Marbury wasn’t necessarily the first person that one would have bet on to make news with his comments on this particular day. However, Fox Sports analyst Doug Gottlieb started a bit of a firestorm and he did so with one tweet.
Biggest myth in basketball… NYC has ball players
— Doug Gottlieb (@GottliebShow) April 12, 2019
As you can see, this comment from Gottlieb actually happened at the end of last week and Gottlieb almost certainly had to know that essentially writing off the entirety of New York City from a basketball standpoint wasn’t going to go over well. The initial wave subsided, though, until Marbury got his hands on it.
Marbury, who landed at Georgia Tech after a big-time high school career in NYC, responded to a prompt about Gottlieb and a potential grudge stemming from an on-court experience in high school with Marbury and God Shammgod. Let’s just say he didn’t hold back.
We used to take turns on that a$$ in front of his dad. https://t.co/MRYynT8XAm
— I AM PEACE STAR (@StarburyMarbury) April 15, 2019
Doug do you remember how dirty I used to do you in front of your daddy? https://t.co/bBUKkuiXwk
— I AM PEACE STAR (@StarburyMarbury) April 15, 2019
The timeline of Marbury would be the place to see full context on this one but, later, he referred to Gottlieb as a “fake good college player” while continuing to dive in.
They put this fake good college player on tv to talk about the game like it’s a science class when he was the project as soon as we knew it was him we were playing against. Everyone dragged him. He must of thought Twitter was a river timeline passing by. https://t.co/zdGbkt1oAa
— I AM PEACE STAR (@StarburyMarbury) April 15, 2019
To this point, Gottlieb has not responded to Marbury with even a passing reference, focusing his Twitter attention on Tiger Woods and other topics on Monday. It would be fair to point out that Marbury wasn’t the only one getting shots in because, well, the largest city in the country probably didn’t enjoy the insinuation that it can’t produce basketball talent, but things may be quieting down if Marbury decides to log off.
There has been damage done, though, and more people seem to be siding with Marbury on this particular episode of Twitter beef.
