The sports industry gossip is bananas today! Fox Sports reports that New York Knick guard Stephon Marbury was grilled about having sex with a team intern in a truck as he took the witness stand at his boss Isiah Thomas’ sexual-harassment trial (we previously reported) — a case Marbury admitted he’s laughed off from the start. Hunched in the hot seat in a stylish tan checked jacket, Marbury ‘fessed up to crassly luring the college student into his vehicle outside a strip club, calling out, “Are you going to get in the truck?”
He said she answered, “Yes.” “It really wasn’t a conversation,” said the cocky team captain, admitting he knew the woman was an intern but denying he was aware she was drunk.
Marbury was forced to admit to further encounters with the intern after the April 2005 incident, but the judge quickly cut off the questioning because Marbury is not a defendant in the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court by fired Knick executive Anucha Browne Sanders.
But the star point guard didn’t hesitate to take a shot at the sexual-harassment case that charges his coach with verbally abusing Sanders for a year and then suddenly telling her he was “in love” and asking her to go “off-site.” Sanders is suing for $10 million and job reinstatement. “When you heard about this lawsuit, you thought it was funny, correct?” asked Sanders’ lawyer, Anne Vladek.
“I laughed. I meant it was more of a joke than anything,” Marbury said. The point guard said he and Sanders got off on the wrong foot from the minute he joined the team.
full story: http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/721751
