Sunday, August 28th, 2011 at 4:22 pm  |  62 responses

Eddy Curry to Play in Melo League-Goodman League Game


The Melo League-Goodman League game—which is going down on Tuesday and will feature LeBron James, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony playing for the Melo League and Kevin Durant and Brandon Jennings playing for Goodman—just got a new participant: none other than Eddy Curry, who will suit up for the Melo League’s squad. HOOPSWORLD’s Alex Kennedy has the scoop:

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  • http://slamonline.com nbk

    I’m with you, busy, but bored. – Lamarcus Aldridge, I would prolly take Aldridge going forward over every 4 in the league, except, maybe, and i really mean maybe, Blake Griffin. — But K-Love I don’t think should ever be cast as a go-to guy, I surely don’t think a team can ever win that way, just like I don’t think the Grizzlies can ever hope for more then a WCF appearance with Zach Randolph as their lead offensive player.

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    Your right Love never should be a 1, or 2 option realistically. He could be forced into that role and what I was saying is that I think he could kind of hold it down. He is a perfect 3rd option imo. The problem for the Wolves is they have no 1 or 2 option. They have a team of 3rd options. I am anxious to see this team next year anyway because they have a chance to make some noise. I see them and the Clips both fighting for that 8th seed. We’ll see how they look with Rubio, Wes Johnson, Williams/Beasly, Love, and Miller.(Ya thats right I want Miller getting more mins that Darko lol.) They have an intersting young squad. Lamarcus is a little confusing to me. I don’t look at him as highly as you do. He is obviously good, but he strikes me as always being best as a 2nd option(which is fine if Roy pulls it together) I like K-Love better than him as of right now(not that he is better overall, but I think he has a higher limit.) This next year(hopefully) will be a good year to see who is taking over the PF spots with KG and Duncan finally gone from the discussion. I see Blake challenging Dirk and Gasol for the top 2 spots. LA, ZR, and K-Love close behind those 3. The Grizz seem to me as perenial 4, or 5 spot WC playoff seeding. And no they will probably not make it out of the WEST for a couple years. If the keep the team together though, I think they have a good chance in a few years with a Gay and Gasol core though. What are your thoughts on Wes Johnson?

  • http://www.ballislife.com/profiles/blogs/kobetop10moments nbk

    Alrdidge held down that go-to guy spot for around 50 wins last season. But offensively isnt where I see his advantage, its defensively. He guards the pick and roll, the post and the hoop (as a whole) better then every Other 4 in the league, and most centers except off the top of my head, Howard,Chandler, Noah, & Bogut.

  • http://slamonline.com Neitel

    There is free lunch…so Curry said, “cool, im in” nah, im joking…i hope this cat kills it, and then people will be like “whhhaatttttt” after the game, if he either flops or do great, we will see videos of his new self up in here. and you can take this to the bank!

  • http://dfklf.com Jukai

    LOL Larry Bird’s tenure was awful, but it wasn’t as soul crushing as Isiah. Sure, Jamal Crawford, Wilson Chandler, David Lee, Nate Robinson, Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph “almost” squeeked into the playoffs (I guess that’s… good?) but you have three bigmen who don’t defend, two undersized ones who don’t defend, and a three who is a “glue guy.” Greattttt team there!
    Isiah was a joke, like a really, really, really bad GM. He saw some semblance of talent in drafts but generally wound up trading away that talent, as well as possible draft picks, for awful choices he thought he could “turn around” but failed at doing.
    Isiah deserves absolutely no credit for anything in New York. He obliterated the franchise.

  • http://dfklf.com Jukai

    Plus when you say “Well isn’t Isiah at least as good as Bird?” then you know Isiah is awful when you have to try and squeeze him in with another absolutely awful GM.

  • Dyce

    Z-bo shot pull up 3′s when he was with NY…Big difference.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    I think Isiah made good moves and bad moves. I don’t like how he’s become the epitome of bad GMs when cats like Kevin McHale and Larry Bird have done just as bad if not worse. Hell, Scott Layden was worse than Isiah, he didn’t even draft well! Right now, the Knicks are one Amare knee injury from being screwed again.

  • http://dfklf.com Jukai

    I can count on my hands how many good moves Isiah made. I’d need a crowd of hands to count the bad moves. It’s ridiculous you don’t see the irony in saying “well he hasn’t done worse than Kevin McHale!”
    Kevin McHale is probably one of the worst GMs of all time– it’s not a GREAT thing they are on par, it’s awful, absolutely atrocious. And I’d take Bird as my GM over Isiah, without a doubt, at least Bird understands the idea of chemistry and wont overpay beyond anyone else in the league for his mistakes.
    And yes, Isiah’s saving grace was his drafting, including David Lee, Wilson Chandler, and Trevor Ariza (who never got to spend any real time with the Knicks cause he was packaged for STEVEN F*$)*ING FRANCIS). But his greatness also drafted Renaldo Balkman and passed by Rajon Rondo, Jordan Farmar and Shannon Brown…. which absolutely MYSTIFIED the draft commentators, who finally just assumed he didn’t want anymore points because he wanted to make Marbury and Francis work… then he immediately drafts Mardy Collins five picks later.
    Channing Frye was a failure too, since Bynum was available and he didn’t see any talent in Bynum.
    Isiah was truly just awful. Sure, Scott Layden pretty much killed the franchise but at least his moves made sense if you tried not to think about it (free agency is dangerous, get something from Ewing, Travis Knight and Glen Rice is decent enough). I mean, Isiah actually had a team of Marbury, Francis, and Crawford and he said “this is going to put the Knicks on the map!”
    Just think about that. Think about it.

  • http://dfklf.com Jukai

    http://www.slamdumb.com/c21.php
    This is my feeling on Isiah
    Also, most teams are a knee injury away from disaster if it happens to their star player.

  • http://www.ballislife.com/profiles/blogs/kobetop10moments nbk

    Alan Houston and his contract was the underlying factor to the Knick decade long decay. Houston was the highest paid player in the league like 4 years after his last game.

  • Pharoah

    What’s crazy is that Scott Layden had Howard Eisley and Shandon Anderson as starters before his exodus. Isiah gambled on Jerome James after a superb post season againt Tim Duncan and co. then got the opportunity to trade for Eddy Curry, who was being compared to Shaq at the time!!! Bandwagon ball watchers were predicting Curry and Howard battles for years to come. What’s alarming in the Isiah discussions as worst GM is how everyone refuses to acknowledge that Isiah was hired to bring $$$… PERIOD!!! Winning was an afterthought since everyone knew Allen Houston’s knees were shot, but James Dolan refused to take him off the payroll. Houston retired the year after Q-Rich was signed. The Steve Francis trade was a product of Larry Browns inability to coach this team. He pushed to rid the team of Penny Hardaway and Trevor Ariza, who he also got into a public war of words. But Isiah is to blame. His biggest mistake was hiring Larry Brown.

    Also, the BS lawsuit by the Anucha Brown was about to fall apart, but Jimmy Dolan found a way to screw that up. Of all the people found liable for sexual harrassment, it wasn’t Isiah. This embarrassment will forever be tied to him, especially in the wake of the Larry Brown fiasco, but it’s important to know fact, not opinion. Damages awarded in this case excluded Isiah as the verdict was for retaliatory firing after James Dolan refused to wait out the trial.

    Isiah took the job that virtually no NBA insider wanted. Just look at Chris Mullin avoiding the job now that Donnie Walsh is gone. He accomplished the goal set forth by the Dolan’s and that was to make $$$. All of his players reached some form of stardom and recognition (Marbury, Crawford, Curry, Randolph, Ariza, Chandler, Robinson, Richardson, Frye, Lee). Marbury was considered elite for a season and a half amongst PGs. Funny how soon we forget! But, like many who take the lead for an organization, his moves just didn’t work out. Maybe we can look at the $100 million that he had to maneuver around. Or the boss unwilling to move the $100 million for Vince Carter before he started to tear it up with J-Kidd across the Hudson.

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