After refusing to play on two separate occasions, Stephon Marbury is close to his end as a Knick.

Frank Isola of the New York Daily News cites a team source in reporting that Marbury will either be ordered to stay home indefinitely or released.

The decision could come as early as this weekend.

"Something is going to happen," the source said. "This has got to end."

Mike D'Antoni did not have anything new to report and is clearly exasperated by the continuing questions on the subject.  "It's status quo.  It hasn't changed any from the last time. Again, I don't want to keep talking about it," D'Antoni said.

A source indicated to Isola that any buyout of Marbury's contract would not take place until after the new year.

"They're going to do what they're going to do," Marbury said. "That's what they've been doing."