Amar'e Stoudemire
Amar'e Stoudemire Carsares ( born November 16, 1982 in Lake Wales, Florida ) is an American professional basketball player. He plays in the NBA for the team the New York Knicks. The 2.08 m wide power forward is regarded as one of the most athletic players in the NBA. In the 04/05 season he was the player with the most dunks in the league.
Career
After he had visited in five years a total of six high schools in two U.S. states, Amar'e Stoudemire joined 2002 directly to the NBA. In the NBA Draft in 2002 voted him the Suns in ninth place. In his first season, Stoudemire was able to convince and won the award for Rookie of the Year, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He also led the national team of the NBA All- Rookie First Team. In 02/ 03, his first season, he already played outstanding for a rookie and scored an average of 13.5 points per game in the regular season. The following year, he improved even more and scored with an average of 20.6 points per game. In the season 04/ 05 Stoudemire scored a personal best of 26.0 points. In September 2005, Amare Stoudemire signed a long -term contract with the Phoenix Suns. Shortly afterwards, on 18 October 2005, he underwent a knee operation. Originally his comeback for February 2006 has been planned. With some delay, he played in March 2006 in 3 games for the Suns. He succeeded in attaining an average of only 8.7 points. On 28 March 2006 was then announced that he would probably be for the rest of the regular season. Shortly after his knee was a second time treated surgically. In order for a possible comeback postponed to the summer, as a candidate for the U.S. national team. But even in the summer, he was not fit enough. He missed the final cut into the 12 - man team in the U.S..
Getting regular playing time there was in the early season of the NBA in October 2006. He came in 7 of 8 games used, played in those 7 games an average of 21 minutes and scored 9.9 points. Following this, he had a remarkable NBA comeback. In the first month of the new season, he scored 15 points / game, 20.5 points in December / game in January 20 points / game (including a 42- point game on 15 January 2007 in Memphis with 15 field goals from 21 attempts and 12 free throw hits from 13 attempts). In February 2007, finally came the long-awaited breakthrough. In 13 games, he scored 28.5 points and 13.2 rebounds fetched including a game against Atlanta on February 25, 2007 seasonal best of 43 points, 16 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks.
Amar'e Stoudemire was astonishing enough at the end of the season the only player the Phoenix Suns, which was used in every Season. He finished the season with an average of 20.4 points and 9.6 rebounds in 57.5 % hit rate from the field. Due to this performance of the season he was selected for the center position in the All- NBA First Team of the season 2006/ 07.
Over the next NBA playoffs, he increased further to 25.3 points per game with 12.1 rebounds.
The Phoenix Suns finished the season 2006/ 07, after a first round win against the LALakers (4-1 ), on 18 May 2007 with a 106-114 loss at San Antonio in 6.Spiel against the Spurs, which the series with 4-2 could decide for themselves. As a main reason for the defeat in this series is an incident from Game 4 At the end of this game fouled Robert Horry the playmaker Suns, Steve Nash, unusually hard, whereupon it bounced off the referee table and a short scramble among the players emerged. Stoudemire and teammate Boris Diaw, who had been taken at that time on the bench, stood up and walked for a few seconds the pitch. The latter presented a violation of the NBA Stoudemire and Diaw dar. were then suspended for Game 5 of the NBA. The Suns were thus able to fall back in Game 5 only 4 players ( Nash, Marion, Bell, Barbosa ), which is at least 20 minutes per game were used in the regular season. The Spurs, in which Robert Horry only lacked the polluter and their 10 most important shooters all were used ( Horry was in the regular season with 3.9 points per game only No.11 in San Antonio), won this important match in Phoenix narrowest of margins with 88-85 for a 3-2 lead in the series. After the victory in Game 6 won San Antonio, after victories over Utah and Cleveland, on June 12, 2007, the NBA Meisterschaftstropäe (Larry O'Brien Trophy ).
On 5 July 2010, officially announced that Amar'e Stoudemire will sign a contract with the New York Knicks. About a total of 5 years of Rookie of the Year 2003 is hereby earn nearly $ 100 million.
Amar'e Stoudemire in 2012 earned 15.2 million euros ( 19.9 million U.S. dollars) making it one of the top 10 highest paid NBA players.
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