Stephon Marbury On His Decision To Leave Minnesota
It had nothing to do with the team and everything to do with the environment.
Stephon Marbury and Kevin Garnett could’ve been something special.
They were both highly skilled young players who complemented each other well (they led the Minnesota Timberwolves to the franchise’s first playoff appearance, after all).
But after playing in Minnesota for two seasons, Marbury felt out of place in the state; it never felt like home to him and he particularly hated the weather there, he told the 7PM in Brooklyn crew.
”We go to Minnesota. It’s great playing but now I’m 19 years old and I’m living where there’s 6 percent Black people and it snows, it’s 10,000 lakes, it’s cold. It’s like 40 below every day in the winter time. It’s black ice. It’s so many challenges in the life of how you live and this is a place I wasn’t familiar with; I wasn’t use to it. I grew up in a melting pot in New York… and then now I leave school and now I go to Minnesota where it’s predominately white people.”
Marbury added that it gets really cold in the winter and the roads aren’t well maintained, and after a handful of near-death instances, he decided he had to leave.
So, he asked to be traded and the organization obliged.
For the longest time, I thought Marbury wanted to leave the Timberwolves because he didn’t get along with Garnett and the organization.
I thought it was an ego issue because both of them were young and wanted to be the sole face of the franchise.
I was clearly wrong.
Marbury even says, “This [had] nothing to do with the team or the people. The fans are dope.”
Were you as oblivious about the situation as I was?
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