Amare Stoudemire is in the final year of his infamous contract with the New York Knicks, one that will pay him more than $23 million this season. There’s been reports that Stoudemire will consider a buyout if he can go to a championship contending team. Well it looks like a major team would welcome him with open arms.
via Mercury News:
In my column last night/today, I mentioned that the Warriors would definitely have some interest in Knicks PF Amar’e Stoudemire if he is bought out by New York in the next few weeks.
Stoudemire isn’t close to the same player he was 8 years ago and not even what he was 3 or 4 years ago, he’s always a health risk, and he has always been a shaky defensive player… plus it sounds like he might want to end up with Dallas, anyway.
But Stoudemire starred under Alvin Gentry in Phoenix… when Kerr was the GM there… and I think both men might be able to see a back-up 4/5 role for Stoudemire with the Warriors if he was interested in coming for a playoff sprint.
Stoudemire, maybe for 4 or 5-minute stretches, can do one thing no Warriors big man can do currently–get on the post, power his way to the rim, then finish with scoring skill.
It might sound shocking to Knicks fans that any team would want Stoudemire but he would be a big help in small stretches for a deep team. He isn’t great for the Knicks who needed him to be a main piece.
