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"Eddy Curry seems to be a new man.

“Physically and mentally I’m doing well,” he said during the Knicks’ Media Day on Monday. “I can’t even believe this day is here. It kind of came fast, but I’m ready.”

Following a season in which he totaled just 12 minutes in three games due to knee problems that ultimately affected his conditioning, the 6-foot-11 center stuck to an intense workout regimen over the summer and weighed in at a respectable 317 pounds when he arrived in New York two weeks ago. He is clearly in the best shape he’s been in since 2007-08, when he averaged 26 minutes in 59 games.

“I didn’t really have a goal in mind,” Curry said of his offseason workout plan. “I just wanted to keep working out, I wanted to take as much pressure off my knees and I wanted to try to find my rhythm.”

Curry is hoping that he’s found enough rhythm to be able to hold his own when the Knicks begin practice Tuesday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Last year, he got off to a “nightmare” start to camp when he was hospitalized with a bacterial infection. He was never able to get back on track - until hopefully now.

“I think Eddy has basically worked on his body the whole summer and worked very hard,” Knicks President Donnie Walsh said. “He’s put himself in a position to come into training camp, but he hasn’t played NBA basketball. He hasn’t gone up and down the court at the speed you’ll go even in practice in the NBA. I think it’s going to take him time to get back into the flow. He hasn’t played in an NBA game in one and a half years, so that may take some time.

“But if he does the same thing he’s done this summer, meaning that he worked hard and worked consistently, then I think he could get back to the point when he was a pretty dominate guy in the low post. That’s our hope and I know that’s his hope too.”-NBA.com