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This fat f*ck is completely destroying the Knicks. He destroyed the present and he's going to destroy the future. There is no way we can trade him. So therefore the 2010 plan is f*cked!
Eddy ain't ready
4:31 PM By Alan Hahn
Somewhere between mid-August -- when Eddy Curry was apparently running full-court against other players and looking ready for the season -- and about two weeks ago Eddy Curry's comeback went in reverse.
After Curry missed all but one practice of training camp last week with a calf injury, the Knicks decided to shut him down and put him back on his own regimen and on his own timetable.
Translated: after three months of training, Curry still isn't ready to play basketball.
"While he did a lot this summer, he's not ready to go out there and play at NBA speed," Donnie Walsh said at practice today. "We're going to take longer to get him out there, because every time he comes out on the floor, he pulls a muscle." (Thanks to Barbara Barker, who covered practice today)
Walsh insisted it was no longer a weight issue, but more about conditioning. When, you have to wonder, does it become an issue with a player not living up to the basic requirements of his professional contract?
Though most fans are quick to mention it, don't expect the Knicks to pursue this any time soon. The "failure to perform" fight is a rare one and if this team never took Jerome James to task for his sumo fitness standards, then you can't expect they'll go after Eddy at this point. There is still time to get him back into shape and on the court this season.
And, quite frankly, all this shows is Curry was in far worse shape at the end of last season than any of us even knew.
But I can understand the issue that immediately concerns most fans: how do you convince someone to take him in exchange for an expiring contract to clear his $11.2M off the 2010-11 cap?
Right now, that'll be a greater miracle than getting the Bulls to take Big Jerome.