Vmart wrote:I don't understand why everyone is upset with Eddy Curry. Its as if you guys were expecting something out of him. I for one am very happy that he is hurt at least the Knicks don't have to waste valuable time on him.

Since he has no value, other than being an expiring contract, and it is doubtful that Donnie would take on (or even find) a multiple year contract equal to Curry's of a player we might want to keep beyond this season, Curry's injury means nothing, except making the flight to Italy a lot safer without his added weight...

...But there is still something in me which wishes that he had come into camp in the kind of shape which showed people he cared about himself, the sport, and honoring his contract. The thing which upsets me the most, perhaps, is the guy's lack of pride, and his recognition of how lucky he is to have found the only profession that would have given him more than a minimum wage job.

bippity - no NBA team is forced to pay anyone.

So anyway. Bye-bye as a knick eddy curry but man I really do hope you get your s##t together.

93BUICK wrote:I'm with Marv- I think the house break in and the Girlfriend/murder/baby dying - that's more **** than most people deal with ever. hell on earth. He ****ed up his career and his life- I don't wish that on people.
I don't care that he has 50 million dollars of Dolan's money. Dolan was dumb to give it to him, just like I was dumb to give Dolan 24 dollars for 2 double margaritas in plastic cups that lite up when you drink them. (Still have yours, Martin?}

that **** still lights up whenever the alcohol splashes into it rim and the Knicks win.

I get p***ed off with him because every year I hoped he'd turn things around (even this year!) and actually turn up to camp in shape and have a good year, and every year he's blown it. Now he's probably going to go bankrupt and his life's going to get even tougher- it's a sad end for him.

Sure it would have been nice if he could come back and be effective, it would definitely help. But he is not in the long term plans of the organization so we need to ship him out and move on. After this season he will become a distant memory.

Best of luck with his personal issues and family - but we have bigger and better things to focus our time on.

Finestrg wrote:

Marv wrote:All right I'm gonna play the have a heart card. I'm all for goofing on eddy as a knick and a basketball player and posting pics of him with giant hamburgers and big mamas and giant kamalas and jabbas, but all you gotta do is look at the pictures of him from training camp to see that he's not a well person. That is one struggling human being, badly and publically. I do think the poor bastard ia done as a basketball player but jesus I hope he's not done with life. I hope he can get somewhere where he can get some breakthroughs about his life and move in a healthy direction. I've read that the knicks have sent him to therapy but I wonder what that's really been about.

So anyway. Bye-bye as a knick eddy curry but man I really do hope you get your s##t together.

Well said Marv...Nobody's been more upset with this dude than me, but I do feel bad for him for a lot that's happened--most of the big stuff was beyond his control (the push-in robbery at his home, the death of his child and the child's mother [and to think one of his other children was there to witness it--that's so horrible ], the whole ordeal with that money-hungry leech of a limo driver who was supposed to be his friend, the arrest warrants)...Some of this stuff is beyond traumatizing to say the least..Everyone runs into a string of bad luck in their lives from time to time but I can't even imagine going through some of what this guy's has had endure..You just figure that at some point he would've completely bottomed out and found it within himself to climb outta this gigantic hole he's dug himself. Hasn't happened and I gotta question now whether it ever will...I think you're right Marv, this guy seriously may not be well mentally..I know Mike and Donnie are probably done with him but for the good of this man's future as a human being, the organization should seriously consider approaching him about getting some help..And do it discreetly---no need for the fans or the media to even know anything about it, in fact it'd be better if we didn't. You can argue that the organization doesn't owe him anything and you'd be right but at this point you really gotta step back and see that this man simply isn't right and needs help..I think the Knicks should do it for him--they could be saving his life. Say whatever you want about the NY Yankees and esp. George Steinbrenner but I know for a fact that George would've taken everything that's happened to him recently into consideration -- if this guy was a Yankee under big Stein, I betcha George would've gotten this man some help by now. You know he won't seek out help himself, someone's gonna have to intervene here sooner than later..Forget his career which I think has been over for some time, I don't think I've ever seen a guy just piss his entire LIFE away the way this guy has. Sad man, it really is.

Well said, we should have a heart and cut him some slack...

But why does he keep lying to himself and us about playing this game?

Would be great if he said he could no longer play the game because of obvious reasons...