No blocking out Marcus Camby

Marcus Camby has played in 14 games this season with the Knicks. Jim McIsaac/Getty Images

The NBA is a test of manhood. It's a league where "power forwards" throw down "slam dunks," where frontcourt players are called "big men," where the preferred defense is "man to man." The most-prized virtue in the league is toughness.

So it's only fair to point out that New York Knicks big man and 17-year NBA veteran Marcus Camby has a skeleton in his closet. There is no gentle way of saying this: He is a huge fan of "The Young and the Restless."

Camby got hooked as a kid growing up in Hartford, first in the projects in Bellevue Square, then in the north end in a tiny townhouse opposite a graveyard.

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