Jamal Crawford returns to the Garden tonight as a member of the Golden State Warriors, and he believes that the Knicks' management blew it when it came to how to handle the Stephon Marbury situation, the New York Post is reporting.

"Honestly, everybody there thought it would be handled before the season started, one way or the other," Crawford told the San Francisco Chronicle. "And now it's continuing to go [on]. It needs to be resolved one way or the other, for sure. It wasn't really a distraction because we were winning, you know what I mean? We've had distractions in the past, so to us, that wasn't like a real distraction. Steph remained professional. He never blew up at the team."