Stephon Marbury on his lost summer of 2009: 'I wanted to kill myself some days'

Even with the knowledge that Stephon Marbury has turned his professional and personal life around in the years since, the clips of him crying and shouting and eventually eating Vaseline on a live internet video stream are as hard to watch now as they were back in 2009. Marbury, who had essentially been punted out of the NBA at the relatively young age of 31 after playing just 47 games in the two seasons prior, was creating a low point for us all to watch for free in the comfort of our own homes; spending the bulk of the summer of 2009 broadcasting a life that was spiraling out of control. In the nascent days of Twitter, some people did get their jokes in as Marbury melted down, but to many it came off as more frightening than entertaining.