I don't hate Amare for leaving and I wish him the best. He's a good dude; he always worked his ass off to improve his game and he did fantastic things for the Suns. He will be missed and not easily replaced sorry, Hakim Warrick , and sorry, Gani Lawal.
Amare has long said that winning was the number one priority, so his choice of new team is the Knicks, where they haven't won anything since before Mike D'Antoni could grow hair on his lip. JC: Not bringing Amare back after was one of my biggest disappointments as a Suns fan.
He was my favorite player on the team, probably my favorite Suns player ever. I thought they should have maxed him out at the time and I still would max him out if I could go back having the benefit of hindsight. The Suns window would have still been open in Ever since that decision the Suns have mostly been a giant bag of ass. If they kept Amare they would have had at least one more shot before we potentially got subjected to the same carnival of horrors of these last six years.
I don't see how paying Amare to babysit the bench could have been any worse than what actually happened. I always cheered for Amare the rest of his career and didn't fault him for leaving.
The Suns offered him a football contract and the Knicks offered a basketball contract. No sane person would have stayed under those parameters. What is your reaction to Amare retiring as a Knick rather than a Sun? SS: It bothers me. I don't care if he wanted to play another season in a Phoenix and might be doing this out of spite since the Suns didn't sign him This was his home, and the team that he will be remembered with.
However, this should have nothing to do with his inevitability in the Ring-of-Honor. That should, and will, happen regardless. I still love him and am very excited to see him go into the Ring of Honor. History will remember his career as a Sun first and a Knick second regardless of where he signed his final ceremonial contract.
SP: Agree with Kellan. Not even this. JC: Meh. He's a Sun and should be in the ring of honor. I do think this speaks to a larger problem with bad blood between the team and many of it's all-time favorites It just seems like a vexing pattern of things ending less than cordially.
I'm also not terribly happy if it's true that Amare wanted to come back to Phoenix on a one year deal and the team rebuffed him. What would the harm in that be? Amare has always been a hard worker and good teammate. The Suns kept Markieff Morris around to start last season but Amare is going to poison the well? What about the somewhat overblown value of a mentor?
It's not like Amare would have stolen minutes that teenagers Chriss and Bender absolutely need right away Oh well, at this point I don't really know the whole story SS: Amare was an interesting player, both on and off of the court. So much ability, yet ultimately an incomplete player since he never learned how to contribute on defense.
Still, he was a joy to watch, and I loved rooting for him while he was here. KO: At least 75 percent of this was Nash, but watching these teams taught me so much about spacing in basketball and how defenses move. On offense, however, the combination of he and Nash showed how unstoppable the pick-and-roll can be when it has the right players doing it.
Jacob Padilla tweeted earlier how the two had the perfect skills for the play and I agree. Both guys are ready to join me if I decide to come here. So we will see if we can work it out. No games had been won and no baskets had been scored, but the Knicks were already reaping the benefits of employing a superstar.
I'm hoping he's the MVP this year. That's kind of what he should shoot for and I'm sure what he's trying to be. Amid a barrage of trade rumors, Stoudemire carried the Knicks. Through the first 54 games, he averaged That the Knicks were barely above. The Knicks were still in position to snag a playoff berth after a six-year hiatus. That's what mattered.
They had surrounded Stoudemire with an average-to-inexperienced supporting cast, and he was still delivering. Those who had scoffed at his arrival were left to soak in their own mistake. Stoudemire wasn't only playing well, he was playing a lot. His Things were panning out quite nicely, considering the hand he and the Knicks were dealt.
Season outcome notwithstanding, the Knicks had already done something special by taking a chance on Stoudemire. Now he was returning the favor. It's what he wants. It's what I wanted, to come to New York and play on the big stage.
He has the same type of swag. This is what he wants and he can handle it. We're going to do it together. After months of dancing around and toward one another, the Knicks and Anthony were finally united. The collateral damage was deemed a necessary sacrifice.
Stoudemire needed a star partner, that second scorer to help him carry the Knicks toward a championship. Anthony and Stoudemire's honeymoon was short-lived, though. New York played. More troubling than the Knicks' mediocre record was Stoudemire's play next to Anthony. His numbers dipped significantly during those final 28 games. Playing next to Anthony, a statistical decline of some sort, especially on offense, was to be expected. Next to him, Stoudemire was no longer the first option, which meant fewer touches and, therefore, fewer scoring opportunities.
Then again, the Knicks traded away a stable's worth of firepower for Anthony. There should have been more than enough individual possessions to go around. Come playoff time, none of that mattered. The Knicks had their two stars and a first-round date with the third-seeded Boston Celtics. It was time to see how far their brand-new duo could lead them. It has to be better. I knew last night I wasn't percent. I wasn't 50 percent last night.
I was pretty much in pain the whole game, from start to finish. I just don't want to further injure the injury. We understand how bright the future is here with the organization. We want to continue that success out here in the next few years. So we don't want to damage anything by overdoing it. Having already lost Chauncey Billups and Game 1 against the Celtics along with him, the Knicks needed their two stars to bear an even heavier burden.
What they got was another dropped bomb. Stoudemire suffered back spasms during Game 2 warm-ups. Though he attempted to play through them, he wound up sitting the entire second half, watching as Anthony nearly shot the Knicks to victory. Following the loss, Stoudemire told reporters he wasn't able to move leading into the first quarter, according to NESN's Evans Clinchy :. I could hardly move. I was trying to play through it.
I went to the training staff and had it worked on before the game. Right before the national anthem, I went to get a little more work done. I tried to push through it and play on it, but once I felt that sharp pain, I just couldn't take it. Stoudemire suited up and played 33 minutes in Game 3, going 2-of-8 from the floor for seven points. It's also available for football, hockey and baseball. Sign Up For Free. View on stats. Javascript is required for the selection of a player.
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