Eddy Curry says he is not alarmed by a medical examiner's findings released Tuesday that Atlanta Hawk Jason Collier died of a sudden cardiac rhythm disturbance caused by an enlarged heart. Curry has also been diagnosed with an enlarged heart.

"Different conditions, different people," Curry said before making his Knicks debut last night. "It doesn't reflect on me. I'm sad it happened. Hopefully, we can find a way to avoid situations like that in the future."

Collier died last month of cardiac arrest, just one week after the Knicks acquired Curry in a controversial trade. The Bulls dealt Curry after the 22-year-old center refused to take a DNA test that could determine if he is genetically predisposed to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition linked to the deaths of basketball players Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers.

According to reports, the Bulls doctors asked Curry to refrain from physical activity for six weeks last summer in order to decondition his enlarged heart. The testing showed a heart rate more consistent with a couch potato than an athlete. However, red flags went up when Curry's heart did not shrink. That's why the Bulls wanted to rule out cardiomyopathy and asked Curry to take the DNA test.

Curry, however, claims that doctors informed him that his heart "went down to normal size."

"It was never really a big size once rested," Curry added. "I came to New York and they measured my heart. Everything is perfectly normal. They told me I had a normal size heart for an athlete. Every athlete's heart is bigger than normal and that's what I had."