New York Knicks center Eddy Curry continues to show that it was a mistake for the Knicks to bring him to New York.
First, he shows up with a heart condition and the Knicks didn’t even know if he was going to be able to play or not.
Then, he underachieves, hurts his knee, gets fat, shows up to training camp out of shape, hurts the OTHER knee, and NOW he seems that he has gotten himself into a legal dispute.
It appears that his personal driver is suing him, first, for about $90,000 in unpaid wages (c’mon, Eddy), and to add insult to injury, it seems that Curry is a homosexual - not that there’s anything wrong with that.
But the embarrassing part is that he sexually harrassed his driver, and allegedly exposed himself to him.
This type of conduct is totally unacceptable. Curry, not the first person in the Knicks’ organization in recent years to be slapped with a sexual harrassment suit (see Isiah Thomas), continues to add to New York’s problems.
This player has been a complete bust since he first arrived at the Garden. Not only has his playing not met expectations, but his lackadaisical attitude is not endearing himself to head coach Mike D’Antoni, either. To show up to training camp fat and out of shape simply shows that Curry doesn’t care.
He doesn’t care about his career, his teammates, his coaches, or perhaps worse, the people who pay his salary, the fans.
Knicks fans have had enough heartache since Willis Reed and Clyde Frazier raised the roof of Madison Square Garden with their second championship back in 1973.
First, there was Jordan, Jordan, and more Jordan, who consistently crushed New Yorker’s dreams of a title in the 80’s.
Then, there was the missed finger roll as well as the missed free throw (see Patrick Ewing)- both times costing New York a banner.
Now, since Ewing left, the Knicks have been in worse shape then ever. They don’t ever make the playoffs, Isiah put his dismal signature on the organization by running them even further into the ground, his scandal which finally got him out of the front office, a trade that cost the Knicks their top two scorers, bad draft picks, and now the Knicks expect their fans to put the next two seasons on hold in hopes of LeBron James gracing the Garden’s floor after the 2010 season.
Other than David Lee, this organization has very little to smile about. D’Antoni, once he makes this team his own with the roster that he will build, will bring New York back to respectability.
It is even obvious that he has earned the respect of his current team. This team will not make the playoffs, but they are not going down without a fight. Game after game, the Knicks may not be winning, but they are not giving up. And that is because of D’Antoni. After a trade like they made, if D’Antoni can still sell his system to the remaining roster, it is clear that they have bought into his philosophy, and they are fighting each and every night.
So, now this. Bringing Curry to New York was a bad move, and it appears that Curry is solidifying that belief with his latest shenanigans.
Curry needs to be unloaded by this club. It won’t be easy, because he makes a lot of money and nobody wants damaged goods, but the Knicks have got to do something about it.
This is a situation that was ugly from the start, and it’s only getting uglier.
Come on, Eddy, pay your driver and keep it in your pants. These are not the types of headlines that the Knicks expected to see about you when they acquired you. Grow up, show some respect for ALL of the people around you, and pay your bills.
First, he shows up with a heart condition and the Knicks didn’t even know if he was going to be able to play or not.
Then, he underachieves, hurts his knee, gets fat, shows up to training camp out of shape, hurts the OTHER knee, and NOW he seems that he has gotten himself into a legal dispute.
It appears that his personal driver is suing him, first, for about $90,000 in unpaid wages (c’mon, Eddy), and to add insult to injury, it seems that Curry is a homosexual - not that there’s anything wrong with that.
But the embarrassing part is that he sexually harrassed his driver, and allegedly exposed himself to him.
This type of conduct is totally unacceptable. Curry, not the first person in the Knicks’ organization in recent years to be slapped with a sexual harrassment suit (see Isiah Thomas), continues to add to New York’s problems.
This player has been a complete bust since he first arrived at the Garden. Not only has his playing not met expectations, but his lackadaisical attitude is not endearing himself to head coach Mike D’Antoni, either. To show up to training camp fat and out of shape simply shows that Curry doesn’t care.
He doesn’t care about his career, his teammates, his coaches, or perhaps worse, the people who pay his salary, the fans.
Knicks fans have had enough heartache since Willis Reed and Clyde Frazier raised the roof of Madison Square Garden with their second championship back in 1973.
First, there was Jordan, Jordan, and more Jordan, who consistently crushed New Yorker’s dreams of a title in the 80’s.
Then, there was the missed finger roll as well as the missed free throw (see Patrick Ewing)- both times costing New York a banner.
Now, since Ewing left, the Knicks have been in worse shape then ever. They don’t ever make the playoffs, Isiah put his dismal signature on the organization by running them even further into the ground, his scandal which finally got him out of the front office, a trade that cost the Knicks their top two scorers, bad draft picks, and now the Knicks expect their fans to put the next two seasons on hold in hopes of LeBron James gracing the Garden’s floor after the 2010 season.
Other than David Lee, this organization has very little to smile about. D’Antoni, once he makes this team his own with the roster that he will build, will bring New York back to respectability.
It is even obvious that he has earned the respect of his current team. This team will not make the playoffs, but they are not going down without a fight. Game after game, the Knicks may not be winning, but they are not giving up. And that is because of D’Antoni. After a trade like they made, if D’Antoni can still sell his system to the remaining roster, it is clear that they have bought into his philosophy, and they are fighting each and every night.
So, now this. Bringing Curry to New York was a bad move, and it appears that Curry is solidifying that belief with his latest shenanigans.
Curry needs to be unloaded by this club. It won’t be easy, because he makes a lot of money and nobody wants damaged goods, but the Knicks have got to do something about it.
This is a situation that was ugly from the start, and it’s only getting uglier.
Come on, Eddy, pay your driver and keep it in your pants. These are not the types of headlines that the Knicks expected to see about you when they acquired you. Grow up, show some respect for ALL of the people around you, and pay your bills.
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easier than creating a blog but hopefully someone wil read this.
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