New York Knick player Stephon Marbury decided to chime in on the Michael Vick situation.

very bad idea

Stephon Marbury is interviewed on Channel 9 from Albany, New York.  There is video of him talking about Vick and dog fighting.

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Materialism didn’t initiate with the Reagan Revolution, but it certainly was accelerated.  It seemed to usher in a new era of wealth-above-all-else, you’re-defined-by-your-possessions-mentality.  One small symptom of that is clear to anyone who is a sports fan.   It's pretty indisputable that all the professional team sports have changed drastically over the last 30 years due to rising player salaries and the player-before-team attitude that resulted.  But the multi-million dollar salaries weren’t enough for the games’ biggest stars.  Endorsements were a way to make even more than what they were paid to play the game.  There has been no better example of that than the connection between NBA players and shoe contracts.  But I just read a story that suggests maybe this is changing ever so slightly.