Embattled Eddy Curry told The Post he hopes the Knicks waive him if he is not in their plans for next season.
The Knicks’ star-crossed center, who has played 10 games in two seasons, said he would not take less money to go away.
“I’m not taking a buyout, so that’s not happening,” Curry told The Post. “Definitely not. They can try to trade me if they wanted to. I hope it doesn’t come to that.
“But I would just hope that if it came down to it, especially going into a contract year, that if [coach Mike D’Antoni] knows this wasn’t the right place for me, they would make the right decision. Other than that, I’ll do everything I can to be ready.”
The Knicks will look for a starting center in the free-agent market. In addition to Marcus Camby, they may court Brad Miller, who played for Knicks team president Donnie Walsh in Indiana.
In perhaps his last act as a Knick, Curry forgot his passport on their season-ending trip to Toronto earlier this week, according to sources. Curry would like to forget his past two seasons.
“It’s definitely been tough, everything I’ve had to deal with,” Curry said. “But I think it will make me a stronger person. With all the negativity I had to deal with the past two years, a lot of unforeseen events, I got to imagine this is going to be a great year for me next year.”
The Knicks can not count on anything from Curry next season and he is viewed as a trade chip, if not a buyout candidate. He will have an expiring contract worth $11.2 million. A team looking to open cap space for 2011 could trade a solid player with a long-term deal for Curry.