Stephon Marbury was born and raised in Brooklyn and spent time with the Knicks and Nets during his 13-year NBA career. As a Chinese basketball legend and now coach in the CBA, Marbury has more time to spend as a fan of his Knicks, his childhood team. Once he got wind of New York bringing in William Wesley -- better known as Worldwide Wes -- into the front office, Starbury was not having any of it. Stephon Marbury: “Did you really just now bring ‘Worldwide Sucker’ to the New York Knicks?” ?.