New New York Liberty president and potential part-owner Isiah Thomas doesn’t want you to know that he made bad basketball trades. And he also knows that hitting up the NFL-obsessed sports talk radio market is the best place to explain things away. We got a little taste of that on Wednesday. In the fall of 2005, frustrated at a fruitless summer’s worth of negotiations, the Chicago Bulls decided to put center Eddy Curry on the trading block. Curry was a restricted free agent, and he was angling for a massive contract extension on the heels of a breakout year with Chicago – one that ended prematurely to his the diagnosis of a heart condition. Teams were both hesitant to commit big money to Curry because of his medical issues, and because of Chicago’s ability to match terms. Read more http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-b...e-that-he-wasn-t-a-terrible-gm-161919603.html
