Maybe Everyone Can Be Happy With Curry in NY

Nothing says spoiled like an NBA trade demand. Here you get these spoiled superstars, given millions to play for their pick of teams, deciding they made a mistake, can't cope, and want out. In a sport where you only have to try if you make the playoffs, no less.

Then you have the strange, sad situation of Eddy Curry. Curry doesn't fit in with D'Antoni's vision for the future, and both men know it. Neither has gone out of their way to snip in the press, and by all accounts, the center has been rehabbing as if he still has a chance of getting off the bench. Curry's also gone through an unimaginable amount of personal tragedy recently, so even the New York press is treating him with kid gloves. It's almost like he's resigned to leaving, and none too pleased about it. Sure, he could opt out and try and sign elsewhere -- he wouldn't get much -- but this seems like a guy preemptively acknowledging that his club may have forsaken him.

With the stars aligned thus, you get this kind of coverage in the New York Post:

"I've been here a long time ... I want to see us get better. If it takes my contract to do it, then I would hate to leave, [but] if it results in the Knicks getting better, I'm all for that." [...]

"I have a lot of respect for Coach D'Antoni and respect for my teammates," Curry said. "I don't expect him to just throw me out there in front of somebody if I don't earn it. I plan on showing him though practice and hard work I can help us win."

Who knows exactly what will happen with Curry. Hard to see who wants his deal, unless the Knicks are willing to forfeit some of their precious cap space to get it. Honestly, at this point he just might want to stick around New York, where the Knicks seem to have a good vibe going, and are fine with having him around as long as he's willing to accept a greatly diminished role. Something tells me that even the most bellicose Knicks fan will allow him that courtesy, rather than resenting his contract from dusk till dawn.

At least for the time being.

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