GIANTS SUPPORT THEIR EX-TEAMMATE.(SPORTS)

Byline: TIM REYNOLDS Staff writer

ALBANY -- Don't include any current New York Giants players in the debate about whether Lawrence Taylor should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

In their minds, Taylor was always a shoo-in for enshrinement, despite his problems with drugs and the law.

Taylor, a Giants linebacker for his entire NFL career (1981-93), will be among five inductees today in Canton, Ohio.

``If he didn't get his due, first ballot up, it would be the greatest tragedy in sports,'' Giants tight end Howard Cross, a former teammate of Taylor's, said Friday at the team's training camp at UAlbany. ``I don't care what he did off the …