Ex-Bulls player robbed
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July 28, 2007
BURR RIDGE, Ill.---- Three masked robbers broke into the suburban Chicago home of New York Knicks forward Eddy Curry early Saturday, according to police.
The robbery took place a little over two weeks after Miami Heat forward Antoine Walker was robbed at gunpoint at his Chicago town house.
In the incident Saturday, the offenders restrained Curry, his wife and an employee with duct tape as they went through the house looking for valuables, according to Deputy Chief of Police John Madden.
The three robbers made off with cash and jewelry, police said. Madden refused to give more details about the robbery. No one was injured in the incident.
Madden said investigators do not believe the robbery was a random incident.
Curry, 24, was drafted fourth overall by the Chicago Bulls in 2001. He was traded to the Knicks in 2005 in a deal with the Knicks, who sent forwards Tim Thomas, Michael Sweetney and Jermaine Jackson to Chicago. The deal included a first-round pick that turned into the No. 2 choice in the 2006 draft, and gave the Bulls the No. 9 pick in this year's draft.
Chicago made the trade after Curry refused to submit to a DNA test to rule out a potentially fatal heart condition.
On July 10, Walker and a relative were bound at gunpoint while multiple robbers took a car, cash and jewelry from his residence Monday evening.
Police found the vehicle abandoned in Chicago a day latter, but have not announced any arrests in the case.
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