Players, New Media and the Ramifications…
As we know, it’s just a matter of time before Mr. Stern curbs players who feel the need 
to tell their life stories on Twitter. I mean, how much longer can he allow situations like Kevin Love to happen? Players in control of technology and new media is often a recipe for controversial or just flat out bizarre behavior.
Speaking of such instances, I bring up Eddy Curry. For the report, we take you to our boy Seth from P&T courtesy of BDL.
“…At this point, only a dozen people or so were watching the webcam. I sincerely wish they could’ve joined our little support group, because we were in bad shape. Thankfully, around two hours after he initiated this horror house of an evening, Curry tweeted that he was “headed home”. Sure enough, a few minutes later, Curry and some bros, one of whom was J.R. Smith, entered the room. For the next hour, we were treated to the following:
- Curry, Smith and friends reciting and cracking up about lines from The Hangover.
- Curry realizing that some other window with streaming video had popped up in his absence, which explained the spotty, maddening music playing over the feed. We all secretly knew it was coming from his computer all along, but things get crazy when you’ve been staring at the same wall with a picture on it for two hours.
- Smith being repeatedly licked and bitten by Curry’s pet bulldog.
- Curry’s phone running out of battery.
- Curry and Smith reacting to nasty comments and racy pictures sent by viewers (now up to over 100 at times) of the stream.
- Smith playing 20 second clips of a number of songs on his laptop, except for the the New Boyz’ “You’re a Jerk”, which he played for about 10 minutes straight.
Then, at 1:44 a.m. on June 18, 2009, Eddy Curry said he was leaving and the feed went black. And so ended what turned out to be a nearly four-hour ordeal that seriously tested the mettle of late-night P&T users. All told, we learned that Eddy Curry’s house, despite all the signs of paranormal presence, is probably not haunted. We also learned that NBA players and their friends do pretty much the same inane things that you and I do, only with more online romantic advances from random strangers. It was a surreal, once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I’d like to thank Barnes, jay, and the other few of you that stopped by throughout the night. I’d also like to thank Eddy Curry, J.R. Smith, and all their friends for giving us such an odd, voyeuristic distraction on a Wednesday night. Here’s hoping “The Eddy Curry Show” gets picked up for a second episode….”
Click here to follow “The Eddy Curry Show” on USTREAM.
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