Stephon Marbury played the second half of New York's loss to Phoenix on Sunday night unaware his father had been taken to a hospital, where he died before the game ended.
Don Marbury was taken from Madison Square Garden to St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center during halftime reportedly because of chest pains, but a family member advised a Knicks' official not to inform Stephon Marbury at the time.
Stephon Marbury learned of his father's death from a family friend minutes after the game.
"It's a terrible thing that happened to him and his family last night," Knicks' Coach Isiah Thomas said Monday after practice. "For any parent watching their son or daughter perform, and to have something like that happen, anyone who has kids would sympathize with the son and you also sympathize with the family."