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Comeback kid: Curry eager for Heat-Knicks

MIAMI (AP) – Over the past month, Eddy Curry has toned his body and toned down the rhetoric.

When he signed with the Miami Heat, Curry made no secret that games against one opponent were already circled on his calendar. That opponent was none other than the New York Knicks.

The Knicks paid him about $30 million to basically not play over an three-year stint where his ballooning weight and series of personal issues seemed to be bringing his basketball career to an end.

“I’m looking forward to it,” Curry said in mid-December, just as training camp was starting in Miami. “Looking forward to it. That’s all I’ll say.”

A little over a month later, Curry is a smaller man – he says he’s lost 35 pounds in the last few weeks, raising his total to 65 by his count since starting his comeback attempt, though some estimates suggest he’s dropped even more.

And when asked these days about the Knicks, who visit Miami on Friday for the first of three matchups this season, Curry’s aiming to be a bigger man by insisting the game will not carry any extra significance.

“Every game is no more important than the other until the playoffs come,” Curry said, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2001 draft trying to pretend that he wasn’t aware a matchup against the Knicks was looming. “Whoever we play, I’ll be up for it. Looking forward to it.”

Curry is hardly all the way back, just back on the floor on occasion. He’s appeared in three games with the Heat, scoring six points in 21 minutes. Miami signed him with the long-term in mind, knowing that his weight issues were not fully in check and that there would surely be some rust to shake off his game after appearing in only 10 NBA contests over a three-year span.

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By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer

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