Stephen A. Smith has responded to former NBA player Stephon Marbury calling him an ‘Uncle Tom’ over his remarks about Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving.
Stephon Marbury on Stephen Smith’s remarks about Kyrie Irving said;
“We are witnessing one of the biggest uncle Tom’s on the planet in @stephenasmith.”
Stephen A. Smith responded to Marbury’s statement on ESPN saying;
“I’m not going to insult Stephon Marbury,” Smith said. “I will say Stephon Marbury has had a problem with me since 2009 because we thought he was a bit bizarre when he was eating Vaseline, literally on video like it was bunch of cheeseburgers.”
That sounds like an insult to me. If you are unfamiliar with the Vaseline incident.
Stephon Marbury was forced from the NBA a few years ago, and it may have saved his life. Marbury is now flourishing in China, but many of us have no clue how close Marbury was to ending his own life.
Who can forget the 2009 video Marbury livestreamed of himself crying and eating vaseline.
Many viewers were confused, some laughed at his strange behavior, and some even posted satirical spoof videos to mock Marbury.
Only a small few showed concern for Marbury’s mental health. In an upcoming segment on HBO’s Real Sports, Marbury, now 37, reveals that his life was spiraling out of control as his NBA career was coming to an end.
His wife, Latasha, says Marbury stayed in bed all day eating Fruity Pebbles, isolating himself after blowing it with the Knicks, the death of his father in 2007, and the unraveling of his “Starbury” discount sneaker company.
“When everything went on with the Knicks, and, you know, my father passed on, the [Starbury] brand was– it was basically losing life slowly,” Marbury tells HBO Real Sports’ Carlos Quintanilla. “And I was watching it. And I think that was hurting me more than seeing my basketball career going in the direction that it was going. … I was trapped in my thoughts. I was trapped in how I felt about how I felt I was treated. I was trapped with decisions that I made.”
Flip to the next page for Stephon Marbury’s statement and then Stephen Smith’s response.