After being known as a petulant malcontent toward the end of his NBA career, and a certifiable looney tune for his epic twitter and Ustream meltdowns, it appears that Stephon Marbury has not only rekindled his career, but also found a bit of sanity in China. The Wall Street Journal recently spent some time with Marbury, and the peek into his new life in China revealed a man far different than the one that publicly lost his marbles on the internet. Of course, there’s still a little bit of eccentricity in there somewhere:
“The attitude toward how they do business is totally different,” but that doesn’t translate to a whole lot of difference for business owners,” Mr. Marbury said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “Some people speak about it being a Communist country, and I’m like well, in America [there’s] democracy, but there are just rules before they tell you you can’t do something. Here in China they just tell you right away, ‘No you can’t do that.’”
To say the least, that’s an interesting take for an entrepreneur seeking to sell his shoes in China. At any rate, it’s good to see Marbury back among the coherent living, and doing well. Perhaps the most encouraging part of the WSJ piece is the video of an interview conducted in his Beijing home.
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