It's nice that Knicks president Donnie Walsh has a stronger conscience about wasting money or pulling the trigger on contract buyouts as freely as his predecessors Isiah Thomas and Scott Layden did. But Walsh needs to get over the sticker shock of doing business in New York and cut the check to Stephon Marbury already. Make him go away. Shut down the Coney Island sideshow before it starts another season. Walsh should remember the last time a Knicks' coach polled the team about whether Marbury is wanted here, as new Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni did recently, the season blew up for Isiah Thomas because Thomas didn't listen. Marbury, angry about being benched, had gone AWOL last November and then made threats against Thomas. The other players voted that Marbury should be punished. Yet Thomas started Marbury in his next game back,...
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