Curry’s Biggest Test Must Wait Until Heat’s O’Neal Is Healthy

Eddy Curry now knows he can score 20 points nearly at will and carry the Knicks for weeks at a time. But his evolution cannot be complete until he has faced the ultimate big-man test: Shaquille O’Neal.

Shaq Announces Retirement

Not to be outshined by the gold medal Redeem Team, Shaquille O’Neal had to do something to recapture the spotlight. And so, at the age of 36, the Big Aristotle has decided to call it quits. Well, not yet, exactly. Here’s what he had to tell News 13 in Orlando:”My basketball career will be over in 735 days.”Read more after the jump

Yi Works Out With Nets

From USA TODAY, “Yi Jianlian returned from China and the Beijing Olympics and joined 16 other players as the New Jersey Nets held voluntary workouts at their practice facility on Tuesday. Coach Lawrence Frank said the only players missing were forwards Eduardo Najera and Stromile Swift. Najera was at basketball camp in Mexico. Swift was in Louisiana working on hurricane relief. Frank is excited about the participation, hoping the new-look team becomes close and develops a work ethic that will carry it. ‘We’re going to have to be a talent-plus team and the plus is all the different variables that go into why certain teams that aren’t expected to be very good overcome those things,’ Frank said.”

Girls Clubs campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Who’s that kid?Denzel Washington, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Martin Sheen, Wesley Clark and Shaquille O’Neal, who attended the Boys & Girls Clubs of America as children, have lent their childhood photos to the organization for a national…