INDEPENDENCE: It’s been 11 years, and Channing Frye still jokingly carries a grudge.
He thinks back to the night that close friend and Cavaliers teammate Richard Jefferson and eight more buddies from the University of Arizona flew to New York to be with him for the 2005 NBA Draft. After Frye was selected eighth overall by the New York Knicks, they went out on the town.
Then playing for the New Jersey Nets, Jefferson said he’d been buying drinks for his guys for years. But the group included about 25 more, including Frye’s family and his “boys” from home.