Beijing Basketball Star Stephon Marbury Opens His Own Museum

It apparently wasn't enough for Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) star Stephon Marbury to be named one of Beijing's 10 model citizens, or then to get his own stamp. Now Marbury has his own museum.

Opened on Monday, the 300-square-foot "House of Marbury" features photos of the Brooklyn native at different stages of his career and life, artifacts including jerseys, and a larger than life-size wax statue of our March cover model.

"#TheHouseofMarburyMuseum Jesus Did It PERIOD! #GodisGreat," Marbury tweeted to celebrate the museum's opening.

Marbury is now in what is likely to be his final season as a player with the Beijing Ducks, who have won the CBA championship three out of the last four years. The Ducks are looking to improve on their 13-7 record tonight, as they take on the Jiangsu Tongxi Monkey Kings at the MasterCard Center. Originally from New York, Marbury was just granted permanent residency in China, and expects to stay on to become a coach with the Ducks after he retires from active play.

The museum can be found at 18A Jianguomennei Dajie, on the ground floor of the China Post Philatelic Flagship Store.

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alan123456 wrote:

Only a foreign reject can become a superstar to turn his or her life around in China and Stephon Marbury is that very archetypal example.  Futhermore, you see all these failures in western countries  and ppl from Russia and Eastern Europe  become superstar English teaches here. Fact.  China needs to get talent based on talent alone and not on skin color or passort nationality *mosking**lol*

I see what you mean there, but Marbury is a different story. 

I kinda think if there's one thing you give credit to Marbury, it'd be his basketball talent. 

Take a look at who he has been playing against in the past 5 years, Aaron Brooks, Will Bynum, Lester Hudson, and Emmanuel Mudiay. 

Marbury schooled each single one of them. 

 

alan123456 wrote:

Only a foreign reject can become a superstar to turn his or her life around in China and Stephon Marbury is that very archetypal example.  Futhermore, you see all these failures in western countries  and ppl from Russia and Eastern Europe  become superstar English teaches here. Fact.  China needs to get talent based on talent alone and not on skin color or passort nationality *mosking**lol*

 

To cast it in another light, what does it say about the quality of the Chinese basketball league (and indeed Chinese society in general) that foreign rejects can come over here and totally school 95% of the cream of the Chinese basketball playing crop? As for the English teachers you speak of, you can bet all these rejects are being paid by Chinese bosses and their salaries paid by Chinese customers. Foreign rejects should be praised for their brilliance in taking advantage of low standards here.

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I think Marbury genuinely learned his lesson. He's quite a different person here in China than he was in his youth in the US.
 

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model citizen? an NBA castaway, thug? i remember him when he played in college,,, WOW, the ego.... the reality is these people, along with entertainers, are truly useless,,, who will miss them when they are gone or what did they truly give to society? like a doctor or an engineer, or a writer,,, nothing of substance... other than, well let me think,,, hmmm, nothing!!!!