Friday, July 29, 2016

Top 100 NBA Players: #68 - Amare Stoudemire


Amare Stoudemire

Amare Stoudemire was one of the best players in the league for a decade, despite missing chunks of time for 3 separate injuries over that time. He was even named to the All-NBA First Team the season after he had two major knee surgeries, and he still kept going.

Amare started out on the fast track. In just his third year he was the #3 player in the entire league, although he didn't get recognized for it at the time because everyone fell in love with new teammate Steve Nash. People attributed Amare's great season to Nash's skill at getting him the ball, and while it had to have helped, there's no doubt that he was improving also. Here are his numbers from that season:

Stoudemire - 26.0 pts, 8.9 reb, 1.6 blk, .559 FG%

His numbers were even better in the playoffs that year, when he led the Suns to the Western Conference Finals as their best player. Yes, you read that right, and this is coming from one of the biggest Steve Nash fans you will ever meet. Here are his playoff stats:

Stoudemire - 29.9 pts, 10.7 reb, 2.0 blk, .539 FG%

The argument that Nash made Stoudemire was put to the test when Amare left Nash's side for the first time in 6 years to play in New York, and the result was one of his best seasons, despite what many Suns fans predicted. It only goes to show that Amare really was a superstar player in Phoenix, and that he really could have won the 2006 MVP if he hadn't blown out his knee.

Amare once again took the Suns to the Western Conference Finals in 2010, although he didn't play as well in the playoffs, allowing Jason Richardson to take the title of Best Sun in the playoffs, and as a result they once again failed to make the Finals.

Other than the season that was virtually lost to injury and his rookie season, Amare averaged over 20 points and 8 rebounds per game in each of his first 9 seasons, and he shot over 50% in nearly every season he played. He was in the top 10 in scoring 4 times and in shooting percentage 6 times. All that came before he turned 30 years old, but that is when his decline began, which is why he isn't any higher on this list.

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