Gar Forman, player personnel director of the Bulls refused yesterday to gloat in public over the deal that sent Curry to the Knicks. "You can write what you want," he said.

"I'm not going to get into that," Forman said. He was asked if he'd expected the Knicks to be this bad, whether he was enjoying their plight vicariously.

"I follow the Knicks," he said. "But then I follow everybody."