<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#e5e5e5;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/94841dc4-7ef7-4ad8-8fdf-40b345e82355/D59CD67C-3542-42C2-BF2A-FC17BE1B5E67/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/05/maybe-stephon-marbury-could-teach-michelle-obama-something.html" href="http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/05/maybe-stephon-marbury-could-teach-michelle-obama-something.html" style="font-size: 11px;">justoneminute.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/05/maybe-stephon-marbury-could-teach-michelle-obama-something.html"><P class="blockquote">Enter Stephon Marbury, the NBA star of the New York Knicks, often called "Starbury." He grew up poor, in a housing project in New York City. Marbury, one of seven children, wanted Air Jordans as a kid but for his mother, he says, that was an automatic "no." </P><P class="blockquote">"She just wasn't spending that type of money for sneakers," Marbury said. But he had to beg for those sneakers. "Because it was just the shoe to have. It was a fashion statement," Marbury said. </P><P class="blockquote">"Two hundred dollars was $200. It was a lot of money. It was a sacrifice," said Mabel Marbury, Stephon's mother. "Anybody that would take their money and buy a pair of sneakers and don't have no food in their house -- is silly." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/05/maybe-stephon-marbury-could-teach-michelle-obama-something.html">So when Marbury became Starbury, earning $17 million a year, he said "enough" -- he would come out with a line of sneakers that sell for less than $15. He teamed with Steve & Barry's University Sportswear, a national chain with 200 stores, and came out with the <A href="http://starbury.com/">Starbury</A> line of sneakers, hats and jerseys. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D59CD67C-3542-42C2-BF2A-FC17BE1B5E67/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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