Eddy Curry came home Friday, only to find humiliation instead of hugs, indignities instead of affection. The ball was still on the rack when it all began. Matters only got worse when the game started.
It was hard to say which was Curry’s lowest moment. The two fouls he picked up in the first three minutes against the Chicago Bulls? The two dunk attempts he had blocked by Andres Nocioni? The 34 minutes he spent on the bench? Or his final statistics — 0 points and 3 rebounds — his first scoreless game since Jan. 29, 2003?
It was easily the worst homecoming in Curry’s two-plus seasons as a Knick, made worse by a 101-96 loss to the Bulls, his former team. And still, that was not the worst of it.
Before the game, Coach Isiah Thomas admitted for the first time that Curry might never become the defending, rebounding, dominating franchise center that he once envisioned.
“There’s certain things that he probably won’t ever be good at doing,” Thomas said. “We want to just make sure that he keeps doing the things that he knows how to do well.” (...)
