Link [rquoter]The Miami Heat are progressing toward signing center Eddy Curry(notes) for the playoffs, front office sources told Yahoo! Sports. After Heat president Pat Riley watched Curry work out in Chicago in recent days, he’s made plans to bring the 7-footer to Miami early next week for another workout and a medical physical with the ultimate objective to sign him, sources said. Curry’s weight and personal problems have derailed what had been a productive career, and yet Riley has been hopeful Curry could somehow give the Heat a limited inside presence in the postseason. It is believed Curry still weighs more than 350 pounds. One league source listed the probability of Miami signing Curry at “better than 50-50.” The Heat would need to cut a player for the playoffs, with rookie Dexter Pittman(notes) as a likely candidate to be waived. ...Curry started to work again with trainer Tim Grover in Chicago. It’s unclear how much weight Curry lost, but NBA executives say he hovered around 375 pounds when he arrived in Chicago several weeks ago. Curry has played a total of 10 games in the past three seasons – including three in 2009-10 and seven in 2008-09 – for the Knicks. New York never activated him this season. In his best season, Curry averaged 19.5 points and 7.1 rebounds for the Knicks in 2006-07.[/rquoter]
Not sure why the Heat would want Curry, especially if he's still at 350. I also don't see them waiving Pittman. They could have waived him earlier and kept D.Butler, Stackhouse or Arroyo. Should he get waived tho, I'd like to see us cut Harris (if he's still signed by then) and pick up Pittman. He's got a pretty decent post game, moves his feet well, got good size at 6'11.5 and he's dropped down to about 280-290 pounds, which is pretty amazing considering he was over 400 pounds at UT.
I've never watched him play but I can't imagine him being any good if he cant find minutes on the heat..
The 76ers are trembling at the thought of facing Eddy Curry... Spoiler 'Cause he's making the whole arena shake!
