Don Marbury, the father of New York Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury, died Sunday night (December 2) during the team’s home loss to the Phoenix Suns.
According to team spokesman Jonathan Supranowitz no other information was immediately available, other than that Don Marbury wasn’t at Madison Square Garden at the time of his passing. Stephon was escorted out the arena by security shortly after the game. Unconfirmed reports state that Don Marbury was at the arena watching his son play, and left early after complaining of chest pains.
Marbury has had a very difficult first month of the season. His aunt, on his mother’s side of the family, died November 19th. Marbury aid at the time he also had another recent death in his family.
HipHopDX gives its condolences to the Marbury family during their time of grief and loss.
