Well at least Stephon Marbury has found a new home: China. I would have to admit that China is a good place for him to start over. Afterall it’s becoming a huge basketball country and he’ll probably be the biggest star there after Yao Ming.

Former NBA All Star Stephon Marbury has said he hopes to use his on-court skills to market his brand of low-cost basketball shoes when he laces up for China’s Shanxi Zhongyu in the coming weeks.

“I want to bring love to Chinese fans and I want to feel the love of the Chinese fans, so I’m going to play hard and work to help Shanxi win more games,” Marbury told Tuesday’s Titan Sports Weekly, a top Chinese sports paper.

See that last sentence there?  I need to change it around a bit so it’s more accurate.  Here’s what Marbury probably said.  “I want to bring my cheap shoes and make some money with the Chinese fans so I’m going to bring a team from it’s current level to that of something they’d call “shit” here.  I will then draw one of the biggest contracts in history for this franchise and not really care at all.  Thanks.”

Here are my predictions for Marbury in China.

1.  Shanxi Zhongyu gets 10 less wins while Marbury racks up 20 and 10 a game.

2.  Shanxi becomes “Starbury Zhongyu Cheap Shoes”

3.  Marbury gets another skull tattoo but it’s in Chinese and while it’s supposed to read “Starbury” they get it wrong and it reads “Child Labor Rules!”

4.  He plays well enough to come back to the NBA and joins Allen Iverson in Philly.

5.  He has relations with little Chinamen

[Via AP]