Worried? Mike D’Antoni has every reason to be worried about Eddy Curry’s latest left-knee injury.
Curry missed his third straight game during the Knicks’ 114-102 loss to the Magic, his left knee still swollen. A tender left knee cost Curry all but three games last season. When asked if he was now getting worried, D’Antoni had to laugh.
“You think I’d start now,” the Knicks coach said. “I got to that point about three months ago.”
The hope is because he’s under 300 pounds, 55 less than last season, the knee will respond quicker to trauma. That’s the hope. The fact is, something seems chronically wrong with Curry’s left knee.
Curry claimed team doctors have never told him he has an arthritic knee, though he took arthritic medication last season. Curry huddled with Dr. Lisa Callahan and Knicks orthopedist Dr. Allen Answorth before the game.
An MRI was taken last week on the West Coast and no structural damage was found. But his comeback is stalled at four games.
“It’s still swollen, we’re not going to rush it, we’ll make sure the swelling goes down all the way and evaluate it and see how it looks,” Curry told The Post.
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Another guy who got away this summer was Jason Williams,who is now starting at point guard for Orlando with Jameer Nelson injured. Williams racked up eight assists and hit a 30-foot buzzer-beater to end the first quarter last night. He worked out for the Knicks in August and a source said he looked a step slow, passing on offering him a one-year contract.
“It’s tough to assess anybody in the summertime, he looked like Jason Williams after taking a year off,” D’Antoni said.