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The last time we went down this amnesty road (2005), teams saved more than $212 million in future luxury tax payments and Houston got a rule named after him. That term was actually a misnomer. Oddly enough — or fittingly given the slew of moves they made over the next few years — the Knicks never used the clause on Houston. In that spirit, we think this year's amnesty clause should be named after Eddy Curry, another player who fits the purging prototype that, alas, the Knicks will never be able to use it on. We'll call it the Curry Cure.2

For the record, Abrams couldn't keep Simmons out of this feature — Simmons gave so many notes for Abrams' original column that we decided to fold them into a bigger piece. Fine, it wasn't "we," it was "him." As Simmons explained by e-mail, "The Red Sox are falling apart. The NBA's salary cap is my security blanket. I'd like to spend the next 40 to 80 hours figuring out amnesty guys if that's OK. It's better than getting drunk, then waking up my kids by throwing up in my backyard at 2:30 in the morning."

If you say so. Here's how each team should use their "Curry Cure."

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Abrams: Darko Milicic. How could this list be compiled and not include Darko? He still has three years and $15.7 million left on his inadvisable contract.

Simmons: KAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe I'm disagreeing with you here … but I think they'll use their amnesty on Martell Webster (two years, $11 million remaining) and chop their total number of small forwards down from 19 to 18.