I call this the curse of the fugazy.  With the Knicks taking on the Bulls tonight, it has reminded me of the Eddy Curry for Michael Sweetney, Tim Thomas trade.  Tim Thomas has been inactive for the entire season with the exception of three games.  This was a player at one time was a lottery pick, an important piece for the Milwaukee Bucks during the Big Three days of Cassell, Allen and Glenn Robinson.  Ever since Tim Thomas called out Kenyon Martin, then of the New Jersey Nets, a fugazy in the ‘04 playoffs it has been all downhill for Thomas.  In fugazy, he meant fake or not authentic, as in a fake thug.  Taking liberties with the fictional word from the movie Donnie Brasco caused him to lose all creditability with the English language and with fans that have a brain.  Well in the aftermath, Martin and the Nets swept the Knicks out of the playoffs; the ‘05 season was terrible, reminding Knicks fans of Charles Smith, and now riding the pine with his NBA future in jeopardy.