Stephon Marbury is losing his mind

There are obviously bigger things going on today than the New York Knicks stable of overpaid, shoot-first point guards.

For example, Game 5 of the NBA Finals, or this Q&A with the suspended Jerry Stackhouse.

That said, when one of the higher profile players in the league begins to tip over the edge of sanity, it simply must be addressed. Steph, speaking to reporters in NYC yesterday:

“I love Larry Brown,” Marbury said. “Period.”

With adoring children surrounding him, Marbury initially told reporters that he wouldn’t answer basketball-related questions. He spoke instead about helping children and about how his mind, once “trapped,” is now “free.”

But then, asked what had freed him, the point guard quickly responded, “Larry Brown! I was tested,” Marbury said. “But that’s all it was: a test. … I passed the test. I’m moving on to the next grade.”

“I love New York more sometimes than I love myself, because this is what made me. And that’s a sin. You’re not supposed to love anything more than you love yourself, but that’s how I feel.” As for his health – he sat the final 11 games last season with left knee tendinitis – Marbury said, “I’m beyond healed. I’m in a whole ‘nother place.”

This all went down at the opening of Steph’s Coney Island youth basketball camp, where he also said he was going to begin selling a line of $220 shoes for $14.98 a pair. He said they’re the exact same shoes.

We don’t know everything about retailing and margins and such things, but we know somewhere in there that math doesn’t work.

As for what the “next grade” and the “whole ‘nother place” are, we’ve known a few crazy people, and all signs point to Steph thinking he’s playing not basketball, but a live-action version of Candyland. By the way, even in that crazy game come to life, there’s no way Steph loves Larry Brown.

(Heat by 2 tonight.)