Last night, the New York Post broke the story about the sexual harassment case filed against the Knicks Eddy Curry by his former driver, David Kuchinsky. Well, they’ve updated the story to include this handsome photo of the chauffeur, and Eddy Curry has also been given the opportunity to respond to Kuchinsky’s claims.
Curry… said last night he was “shocked” at the allegations. “It’s false, and everyone who knows me knows I’m not a racist,” he said after the Knicks beat the Hornets in New Orleans. “I’ve never made a comment like that, playing, or nothing… That’s incredible, man.” [...]
Curry’s lawyer, Kelly Saindon, said Kuchinsky began making a series of claims for unpaid wages several months ago, upping the ante each time. Saindon said Curry took a chance on hiring Kuchinsky despite the driver’s criminal record, which includes a three-year prison sentence for a 1992 burglary in New Jersey. He also got three years’ probation in a 2004 resisting-arrest case in the Garden State, records show.
So wait a second. Kuchinsky’s a convicted felon with prison time, and he supposedly turned down the alleged advances of a large black man? I find that very hard to believe, if the axiom about black and going back is correct. Combine that with Curry’s established record of being docile and passive (on and off the court, and everywhere else but the buffet), and it looks like Mr. Kuchinsky may not be seeing much of Curry’s money. The money that Curry has earned with his years of rehabbing and going to practice and sometimes even dieting.
Whether or not the allegations are true, Knicks center Eddy Curry will henceforth be known as the guy who got sued by his former driver for gay sexual harassment. Allegedly, Curry did things like solicit chauffeur David Kuchinsky for gay sex, make Kuchinsky clean up his — for lack of a better word — cum rags, and demean him with a bevy of racist slurs. Ready for more? Here we go:
The stunning court papers claim Curry, a married father of three, repeatedly approached chauffeur David Kuchinsky “in the nude,” allegedly telling him, “Look at me, Dave, look” and “Come and touch it, Dave.”
Curry also made Kuchinsky perform “humiliating tasks outside the scope of his employment, such as cleaning up and removing dirty towels [Curry had ejaculated into] so that his wife would not see them,” the Manhattan federal court suit says.
Kuchinsky, who is straight and Jewish, also alleges racial discrimination, saying that Curry hurled slurs at him including “f—ing Jew,” “cracker,” “white slave,” “white devil” and “grandmaster of the KKK.”
And, just for good measure, Kuchinsky also claims Curry pointed a loaded gun at Kuchinsky on two different occasions to keep him from complaining. Curry denied all of these allegations, which is probably the right thing to do, even if that f—ing Jew cracker IS a white devil.
(submitted by tons of people, but Sports Crackle Pop was first)
Stephon Marbury, banned from the Knicks after his initial benching and subsequent refusal to play for the team, has temporarily relocated to Los Angeles, where last night he watched the Knicks lose to the illness-plagued Lakers (recap here) — as a paying fan with courtside tickets. From the New York Post:
“I’m not worried about [where I'll play next],” Marbury said. “All I got to do is get free. Once I get free, the team I’m going to go to a lot of people will be shocked. All the people who say nobody wants me on their team, I’m all different things, a cancer, that’s not what’s going on.”
Not to nit-pick, but that IS what’s going on. Like, exactly what’s going on. Marbury is the opposite of correct.
Asked why he attended, Marbury said, “I just wanted to see the game. I miss it a lot. It’s the closest I can get to the game right now.”
Awww, poor guy. He misses the game. Why, if you gave him the choice of playing for free or sabotaging the team and refusing to play while continuing to collect a paycheck, he’d… uh, go with sabotage. Definitely sabotage.
If only they put the kind of effort into their signs that they dedicate to their facial hair
There’s still talk of LeBron James leaving for New York via free agency in 2010, but in the meantime, King James is busy kicking ass in Cleveland, where last night he led the Cavs to a 118-82 thrashing of his future team. James scored 21 points in less than three quarters of play, and no Cleveland starter played more than 28 minutes as the team improved to 15-3 and maintained its perfect record at home (10-0).
The Knicks, depleted by injuries and distracted by the Stephon Marbury three-ring circus and traveling minstrel faire, could only flail helplessly as the Cavs built a 26-point lead by halftime. They also turned the ball over a season-high 26 times. But hey! Only 146 more regular season games until LeBron’s on the team!
Elsewhere in the NBA: Celtics and Lakers continue their annoying dominance: Rondo’s first career triple-double leads C’s past Pacers; Kobe kills 76ers in Philly… Blazers drop Wizards in DC, win sixth straight thanks to Brandon Roy’s late surge. Greg Oden added 13 points and ten rebounds in 31 minutes… Shaq and Steve Nash both sat out against the Hornets, and Chris Paul (24 points, 15 dimes) did his thing. Guess who won.
Those clamoring for a Republican-led Congress notwithstanding, this LeBron James thing is getting way out of hand. HE HAS TWO MORE YEARS IN CLEVELAND! Are there so few compelling storylines in the NBA that we have to develop them on credit? Depends on how much you like the New York Knicks, who hosted James’ Cavs last night in the Garden. Seems like the Knicks already are positioning themselves already for their best chance to win the upcoming LeBron Sweepstakes. From that one site:
This, however, was the first time that James had entered the building with the locals having legitimate reason to believe their future savior was setting foot in his future home. The game came four nights after the Knicks made two major trades that set the course for the future direction of their franchise, clearing $27 million of salary-cap room for 2010-11 when they traded away Zach Randolph and Jamal Crawford.
“July 1, 2010 is probably going to be one of the biggest days in free-agent history in the NBA, a lot of teams are putting themselves in position to get one of those guys, they’re gearing up for that date,” James said before spewing the requisite background quasi-disclaimer on how having the opportunity to win the most championships will ultimately be one of the major deciding factors when he chooses to move on with his life or stick with Cleveland as the center of his universe.
So obviously nobody cared about the game last night, which Cleveland won handily, 119-101. The only real account worth rehashing came from this guy: Read the rest of this entry »
D’Antonio: “Oh no they DIH-N’T!”
During the Knicks’ season-opening victory at Madison Square Garden, a group of retarded Knicks fans chanted for coach Mike D’Antoni to put in Stephon Marbury, which is kind of like cheering for lymphoma in the chemo ward. D’Antoni, not being retarded, took issue with the fans.
With some in the Garden crowd surprisingly chanting “We Want Steph” with 11:10 remaining in the fourth (others booed the chant), a stewing D’Antoni was caught on MSG Network cameras Wednesday in a tirade, mouthing:
“You’ve got to be (bleeping) kidding me. You’ve got to be (bleeping) kidding me. What a bunch of (bleep) holes.”
D’Antoni later issued something between a denial and an apology, but he shouldn’t have. You know how annoying and useless the Turtle character is on “Entourage”? Put 15,000 of that guy into the same building and you’ve got a Knicks home game.
