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Eddy Curry has told close friends that he would welcome a deal to either Miami or Chicago but a trade of that magnitude won't take place unless Eddy starts playing. If I'm Miami, I'd take a chance on Curry. The undersized Heat could use a powerful low-post scorer and with the proper diet and training regiment perhaps Curry can improve his fitness. Sure, he's not very effective once he's steps five feet from the basket but when Curry does get deep post position he can be unstoppable.

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January 13, 2009  07:39 AM ET

i agree, but it seems that riley, with his fetish for one dimensional, defensive players, is TRYING to make DWade walk away to a more balanced team when he opts out to become a free agent.

January 13, 2009  08:15 AM ET

Does he even have a choice? First, get yourself in shape and get some respect back and prove that you can still play before you request for some trades.

January 13, 2009  08:21 AM ET

OH YEAH! NO ONE IS COMPLAINING HERE! GET RID OF HIM, PLEASE DEAR GOD!
JEROME JAMES, GREED IS NOT YOUR ALLIED IN TIMES OF TROUBLE! GO AWAY ASWELL!
NEITHER OF THEM WILL GET PASS OLD SHAQ IN A BAD DAY!

January 13, 2009  08:51 AM ET

Eddy Curry does need to be dealt but he burned some bridges with Paxson so I can't see the Bulls going after him.

The Heat? Possible, because Curry's name has been linked to them for some time now.

The only shape Curry knows is round, but he is going to have to prove that his knee is healed in time before the trading deadline in order for Walsh to have a realistic chance of trading him.

January 13, 2009  09:12 AM ET

What's with Riley's man crush on fat people?? First it was Walker, and now Curry?? Jeeez

January 13, 2009  09:13 AM ET

First before any thinking of a trade get yourself in shape

January 13, 2009  09:32 AM ET

Bitter sweet taste overall!

January 13, 2009  09:47 AM ET

Good.....let's get him out of there!!

January 13, 2009  10:15 AM ET

Yeah trade him to the Heat for anything, that doesn't earn money after next season. Wade's going to be so fed up, he's leaving ship for sure in 2010...

January 13, 2009  10:29 AM ET

"and with the proper diet and training regiment perhaps Curry can improve his fitness."

Does this writer actually WATCH basketball ???
no f'n duh....IF he did this, IF he did that

We're talking about eddy curry jr.
he ISN'T going to do anything except collect his paycheck and stay fat

January 13, 2009  10:35 AM ET

Curry can leave if he wants to. He has player options for the next two season so he can opt out and go wherever the hell he wants. He doesn't pay for his clothes, doesn't pay his driver, always out of shape, doesn't rebound, sucks on defense...I guess there's a Charlotte for everyone.

January 13, 2009  10:57 AM ET

He would probably make Miami a 50 win team, but that's about it. Would be better off in a veteran invironment such as San Antonio, I bet he would be good in that no-nonsense system.

January 13, 2009  11:25 AM ET

are kidding me?! CAn you really see Curry huffing and puffing down the court in Miami's uptempo offense? The guy will have heart attack on South Beach with a cuban sandwich in his throat!

January 13, 2009  11:29 AM ET

Hey Curry...ever heard that expression about beggars can't be chosers? Look into that a bit before declaring where you want to be traded to.

January 13, 2009  11:30 AM ET

The Bulls might need him, but they'll never take him.

January 13, 2009  11:34 AM ET

KNICK SLAPPED WITH SEX-HARASS SUIT
GUY DRIVER: EDDY CURRY PUT MOVES ON MEKnicks center Eddy Curry was slapped with a shocking sex-harassment suit Monday by his former driver, who claims the 6-foot-11 hoopster tried to solicit gay sex from him.

The stunning court papers claim Curry, a married father of three, repeatedly approached chauffeur David Kuchinsky "in the nude," allegedly telling him, "Look at me, Dave, look" and "Come and touch it, Dave."

Curry also made Kuchinsky perform "humiliating tasks outside the scope of his employment, such as cleaning up and removing dirty towels [Curry had ejaculated into] so that his wife would not see them," the Manhattan federal court suit says.

Kuchinsky, who is straight and Jewish, also alleges racial discrimination, saying that Curry hurled slurs at him including "f---ing Jew," "****," "white slave," "white devil" and "grandmaster of the ****."

The sex allegations hark back to the bad old days of Isiah Thomas running the team, when the team's VP of marketing, Anucha Browne Sanders, filed a 2006 sexual harassment suit claiming the general manager made advances toward her and even said he "loved" her. He also allegedly called her "ho" and "****."

She also complained the team was allowed to become a sleazy old-boys club, in which Stephon Marbury had sex with a female intern in an SUV. In the end, Sanders was awarded $11.6 million in punitive damages and the Knicks settled with her.

And in a disturbing episode reminiscent of some of the evidence in the manslaughter case against former Nets star Jayson Williams, Kuchinsky further claims in his suit that Curry pointed a "fully loaded" gun at him on at least two separate occasions to keep him from complaining about his treatment.

"Look, I have one in the chamber," Curry allegedly said.

Kuchinsky, who worked for Curry from October 2005 through October 2008, says he was initially hired as an around-the-clock chauffeur for Curry and his family at their Burr Ridge, Ill., mansion.

But shortly after starting work, he soon found his duties fell well outside his job description and "progressively became Curry's "house-boy,'" his suit says. He is seeking $98,000 plus compensatory damages from the injured Knick, whose contract pays him $9.4 million this year.

January 13, 2009  11:34 AM ET

Kuchinsky says he is owed $68,000 in unpaid wages, as well as $25,000 in expenses for which Curry never repaid him.

"Instead of paying him, they discriminated against him, figuring that it would keep him there," said Kuchinsky's lawyer, Matthew Blit. "Imagine going into your boss's office ... and he stands up and drops his pants and he asks you take care of him. Those actions are unacceptable whether it's in a corporate office or a private home."

Curry, who has played just 2 minutes, 38 seconds this season because of knee injuries, declined to comment late Monday in New Orleans, where he was expected to sit out the Knicks' game against the Hornets.

His lawyer, Kelly Saindon, denied all of Kuchinsky's allegations, calling them "absolutely untrue," and saying he began making a series of claims for unpaid wages several months ago, upping the ante each time.

Saindon said Curry took a chance on hiring Kuchinsky despite a criminal record that includes a three-year prison sentence for a 1992 burglary in New Jersey. He also got three years' probation in a 2004 resisting-arrest case in the Garden State, records show.

"It's shocking that Eddy opened his home to a convicted felon out of prison, and gave him a job when he couldn't find a job, and this is what comes out of it," she said. "The entire thing is preposterous."

Kuchinsky's lawyer conceded his client's "troubled past," but said that was all behind him.

Additional reporting by Marc Berman

bruce.golding@nypost.com

January 13, 2009  11:37 AM ET

Curry, want in one hand and crap in the other... see which one fills up first.

January 13, 2009  11:52 AM ET

Curry is the classic underacheiver. Until the the Knicks or some other suitor is in the position to demand that Curry get his fat butt in shape. He isn't going anywhere. I have virtually no respect for Pat Riley, but after ridding himself of Antoine Walker, I doubt even he would be dumb enough to take on Curry.

 
January 13, 2009  12:00 PM ET

I watched the game he played in the other night i think he might have ate kuchinsky instead. No way bulls bring him back.

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