I hate to use the word “swag”. I always have and always will. But if I was ever going to use it this would be a good reason to because how many people do you know with their own stamp? The answer is nobody, but Brooklyn’s own, Stephon Marbury will now have his face on packages and letters shipped around the world. Marbury has become a bigger than life star in China and they are doing this as an honor to him.
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Stephon Marbury has a statue in front of the arena, a play based on his life, three Chinese Basketball Association titles and now will have a postage stamp named in his honor in a ceremony Saturday in Beijing, according to the former Knick. Even the biggest star athletes here in the U.S. don’t ever get this kind of worship.
“I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that people will be able to buy a stamp of me to mail packages anywhere in the world,’’ said Marbury, who plans to give a speech at the National Museum of China in Beijing. “I am truly humbled. Never did I imagine in all of my 38 years of living that I — a kid who grew up 7,000 miles away from Beijing and a kid who came from the projects of Coney Island — would have a stamp of myself. I can never have dreamed it.”
The Coney Islander has won three titles for the Beijing Ducks in four years, including last month’s triumph over the Liaoning Flying Leopards, during which he was series MVP. He plans to return for at least one more season.
