Bulls And Curry Increasingly Likely To Part Ways
28th September, 2005 - 9:31 am
Chicago Tribune - The extraordinary events surrounding the Bulls' contract negotiations with center Eddy Curry are fast-breaking to what figures to be an ugly standoff within the next week, one that now seems almost certain to end the Bulls' career of the Thornwood High product.

It's a scenario perhaps unprecedented in the NBA: an arbitration ruling in favor of Curry may be the only way he will play again for the Bulls and even then it would be just for this season and at the discretion of a team Curry says he doesn't care to play for anymore. A peaceful resolution, considering recent comments from both sides, seems unlikely. Instead, here are the most likely scenarios: Curry is traded in the next week, he is barred from playing this season or he is sitting restively on the Bulls' bench. [READ]

I cant wait to buy his knickerbocker jersey

and an insurance policy

hope he joins the knicks

Nalod,
Look at Curry and his upbringing! Fried food all the time. I've read the type of **** he's eaten, and it's a buildup of clogged arteries. Just because you're acenter in the NBA and are big, doesn't mean you cannot have a heart attack. Put Othella Harrington on Sweets in a game for 48 minutes every night and they'll be hospitalized. Curry is in great shape but his eating habits constitute the problems he has now, which are heart problems.

Proper eating is a hell of a remedy to most of our diseases today.

Do we really need Curry? I just read today that Zeke had offered a package of Tim Thomas and Sweet to the Bulls. I personally don't believe that Curry is worth all of that.

CURRY NOT ON KNICK MENU
By MARC BERMAN

Bulls free-agent center Eddy Curry will slip through Isiah Thomas' mitts again. The Post has learned the Knicks offered Chicago a sign-and-trade package of Tim Thomas and Michael Sweetney for the ailing big center, but has been rejected repeatedly by GM John Paxson.

Barring a trade, Curry, suffering from heart irregularities, is expected to sign the Bulls' one-year, $5 million qualifying offer before Saturday's deadline, according to his Jersey-based attorney, Ed Milstein.

Curry has been commiserating on the phone almost daily with his best friend, Knick guard, Jamal Crawford, who's worked behind the scenes to get him to New York.

"They're not trading him," one team executive said.

After Curry signs, the Bulls and Curry will head to arbitration where it will be decided whether the 7-foot phenom has to undergo a DNA test, Milstein said. The Bulls want Curry to have the DNA test (to see if he is genetically disposed to a potentially fatal condition), but Curry has refused. If Curry passes the test, Chicago would be willing to offer Curry a long-term pact, guaranteeing him between $20 and $30 million.

The Knicks offered the Bulls a package that would start Curry at more than $13M and give Chicago cap relief after season. Tim Thomas' contract ($13.5M) and Sweetney's ($2.1M) expire after the season. Isiah has offered Thomas in multiple deals because of his tradable contract and the Knick glut at swingman.



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Charleston boot camp doesn't begin until Tuesday morning, but all Knicks have already reported and are working out at Westchester campus, as encouraged by Larry Brown.

If Berman thinks the Knicks won't get him, you can rest assured that Curry will soon be a Knick.

Posted by Rich:

If Berman thinks the Knicks won't get him, you can rest assured that Curry will soon be a Knick.

LOL

DaMano: I would stop at just TT as well but Chicago might get better offers than just 'save cap space'.

Isiah better not do this deal. We can do without Curry.