[caption id="attachment_1603" align="alignnone" width="451" caption="Via NetEase: http://tinyurl.com/7lg9bku"][/caption] Some tickets for tonight's deciding fifth game between Shanxi and Beijing are going for more than 10,000 yuan, according to CCTV's courtside reporter. Security is at maximum. Don't even think about taking in lighters, bottles or any miscellany that can be thrown (paraphrasing Stephon Marb ...

The above is taken from a BTV preview of tomorrow's deciding Game 5 in Beijing. Sunday's incident in Shanxi is only alluded to because everyone is already pretending it wasn't a big deal. Asked about what Beijing's fans will be like, Stephon Marbury proceeds to bumble through 12 seconds of an answer before finally giving in to the temptation to diss Shanxi's fans, albeit gently. One sort of wishes he would' ...

Via CCTV special about Marbury I'm sure we all remember the post-game fracas in Taiyuan, Shanxi after Sunday's game, so we'll jump straight to Stephon Marbury in his own words in his weekly China Daily column: I couldn't believe this. Yes, I had experienced opposing fans throwing stuff at us before while on their home basketball court. But, I never thought this would happen during a CBA semifinal game. I wo ...

Tudou video for those in China after the jump. At the 53-second mark in the above video, the Shanxi fan who accuses Stephon Marbury of punching him in the head and then kicking him after Sunday night's game tells the journalist: Because there were too many (Shanxi) fans, too crowded, when Marbury came out, the fans were careless so they squeezed around him. He (Marbury) had a water bottle in his hand and hi ...

Tudou video for those in China after the jump. UPDATE: Video of accuser and Marbury's response: "He got a wild imagination." First, let me say as plainly and firmly as possible that the end of last night's Beijing-Shanxi game was a joke. I'll repeat here what I tweeted last night in apoplexy: the referees were intimidated by Shanxi's fans and gave the game to the home team. They were scared because at least ...

The video after the jump depicts a Stephon Marbury unlike any you've seen. At 35 -- currently winding down his third and best season in the Chinese Basketball Association (he just scored 52 and 53 points in consecutive games in the CBA semifinals, against his former team, the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons, no less) -- he's briefly shown on the bench at practice reminiscing about the time when he was 18, catc ...

I'm currently working on re-uploading the original video, which included music. (UPDATE: Deadspin has embedded the video with music.) WMG and IODA were unhappy with my inclusion of Hanggai's "Five Heroes," so they won't let you see it if you live inside the U.S., but if you have a VPN that connects you from Kuala Lumpur or something, check this. The CBA All-Star game was last night in Guangzhou, with the ve ...