The Knicks are a picture of stability.

Originally benched for missing a shoot-around, Stephon Marbury - or Starbury - has left the Knicks. So, needless to say, the Isiah Thomas/James Dolan era of the Knicks continues to progress nicely.

In a text message to NY Post columnist Marc Berman, Marbury says, "“I have one thing to say and that’s I got permission to leave. I would never leave my team on my own. What I’m telling you is that I got permission to leave from Isiah. He said I could go home.”

During a shoot around on Tuesday Isiah had alluded to Stephan joining the team in Los Angeles on Wednesday. In his previously mentioned text to the Post Starbury said, “No, I’m not coming to L.A. as of now.”

Wellllllllllllllllll, somebody is a fibber, and because of Starbury's phenomenal appearance on Mike'd Up this summer, his work with providing affordable sneakers (yes, both Stephon and I are incredibly socially conscious), and his hatred for Stephen A Smith, I'm going to believe Marbury. Plus everything Thomas has done since 1992 has been worthless and just outright horrific. Yep, that's 15 years of failing at life. But you have to hand it to Isiah, after that much failing most people end up going nuts and fall into depression. But not Isiah, he picked himself up by the bootstraps and became a con man that harasses women and convinces men with too much money that he could run their basketball franchises with complete success, then fail, yet keep his job. Score one for the side that believes there is no God.