Stephon Marbury: I really don’t play …

Stephon Marbury: I really don’t play the ‘what if’ game because ‘if’ doesn’t really exist. But playing with Kev was always fun. I loved playing with Kev. I loved playing in Minnesota. I just couldn’t give seven years of my life living in Minnesota. I grew up in New York in the melting pot where there’s Black, White, Chinese, Puerto Rican, Italian – all different types of races. And entering Minnesota, it’s predominately white. After me leaving Georgia Tech where I lived in Atlanta. So you go from a melting pot, to a place where there is a lot of black people to where you go where it’s 6 percent black people, it was a culture shock to me. So I was evaluating my life. Not just basketball. I’m not saying that I couldn’t have stayed there and played there, but with the snow, how cold it was (it was like 40 below), you’ll wake up and on some days you’ll go outside and if you don’t have this-and-this, you could die. I’m like, ‘I don’t want to die from this – I know I’m going to die one day, but I don’t wanna die from going outside to my car’ …