It's unclear if Stephon Marbury will be suspended, but it's clear coach and player are finished with each other. Isiah Thomas and owner James Dolan met with Larry Brown in the coach's office two hours prior to tipoff last night to discuss the matter.

Brown talked as if Marbury already was dead to him and the coach would rather not have him on the team, according to Marc Berman.

"If coach is comparing his career to my career, he's got a 20-year edge on me," Marbury said. "That sounds like a lot of insecurity going on.

"He always crosses the line," Marbury said. "That's not nothing new. He handles certain things through the media as opposed to sitting down and talking to people. Still, if you sit down and talk to coach, it's liable to get back to everybody. You're really not safe there, either."