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Amare Stoudemire free throw, Photo by Keith  Allison

Top 10 Interesting facts about Amare Stoudemire

Amare Stoudemire is an American-Israeli professional basketball coach and former player who served as a player development assistant for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Amare has won several basketball awards, and several prep honors, and he was selected as Florida鈥檚 Mr. Basketball. Because of his pure talent and effort in basketball. Apart from basketball, Amare has off-court businesses that include a record label, a clothing line, acting, and a series of children’s books by the scholastic press. He also owns a share of Hapoel Jerusalem. The following are some of the top 10 interesting facts about Amare;

1. He played for five different high schools

Juwan Howard against Amar’s Stoudemire, photo by R. Bradley Maule Wikimedia Commons 

Amare Stoudemire was exchanged between five secondary schools. Stoudemire played high school basketball for five different secondary schools. He is the much-maligned high school junior who has gone through different schools. He grew up in Florida and transferred from Lake Wales High School to Mount Zion Academy. He left and attended summer school at Dr. Phillips high and later on he settled in at West Orange. After playing for all these schools, he graduated from Cypress Creek High School in Orlando and declared for the National Basketball Association draft as a prep-to-pro player.

2. Amare won a bronze medal with the United States national team.

After high school, Amare signed for American National Basketball Association (NBA). He won the National Basketball Association Rookie of the Year Award in two thousand and three (2003) with the phoenix suns, who selected him with the ninth overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. He made six appearances in the NBA All-star game and was named to the All-NBA team five times, including a first-team selection in 2007. In the year 2004, during the Olympics, Stoudemire won a bronze medal with the United States national team.

3. Amare had the highest score by a prep-to-pro player

It was on 30TH December 2002 when they had a game against Minnesota Timberwolves. In this rookie season, there were thirty-eight points. This was the highest score by a prep-to-pro player until it was broken later, a year later by LeBron James. Stoudemire was selected to the Rookie squad. In the Rookie Challenge, Amare recorded eighteen points, seven rebounds, and four steals. Later he won the NBA Rookie of the Year award, beating out the likes of Yao Ming and Caron Butler. This made him the first player drafted out of high school to win the award.

4. He owns his clothing line launched at Macy鈥檚

Amare Stoudemire at Knicks vs Wizards game 11/23/13, photo by Keith Allison Wikimedia Commons 

Amare is one of the most fashionable people. He designed a line with Rachel Roy and has become a front-row fixture in many events involving fashion. Their collaboration with Rachael has earned him, becoming a famous cloth line globally. In the current stands, their collection is upgrading on women鈥檚 fashion, which is made to give women court-side apparel to wear at Knicks logo, Stoudemire鈥檚 jersey number, and star of David. Launched at Macy鈥檚, the price of the new line ranges from 50 to 205 euros.

5. Stoudemire received a Community Assist Award

Each one, teach one, is a proverb that originated in the United States during slavery when Africans were denied education. In November 2008, Amare Stoudemire received the NBA community assist award for his work with his everyone, teaching one foundation, and its effort to provide safe drinking water in Sierra Leone by funding the building of water wells in impoverished villages. His work aided many people who were languishing in poverty and hunger, especially in Sierra Leone.

6. He owns a record label

-Amar’s playing with Phoenix sun, photo by Keith Allison Wikimedia Commons 

Apocalypto is the name of the label. The records label is one of the off-court activities of Amare. This has fostered him to sign 鈥済iant鈥� rappers. Mostly, the records concentrated on Americans where mostly mare mostly operates his off-court activities. Recently, the label had an effort to sign an American rapper J. Cole. Others include rappers from Phoenix to Atlanta.

7. Israeli president invites Amare to join national teams

Due to his strong ties with Judaism, Amare was invited by president Shimon Peres to his house in Jerusalem while in town for Maccabean Games. President Peres urged him to help the national team.

8. Amare has appeared in a comedy film, Train wreck

Amar addresses fans, photo by Chamber Wikimedia Commons 

In the comedy film, Amare Stoudemire appeared in Train wreck as one of the sports surgeons Dr. Aaron Conner (played by Bill Hader). The films have played a vital role in publicizing him.

9. Amare Stoudemire has also appeared in Fox鈥檚 comedy series

Amare Stoudemire appeared on Fox鈥檚 comedy series, The Mindy Project, where Mindy Kaling鈥檚 character went on an outing with her co-workers to a nightclub and wound up hanging in the VIP section with the New York big man. He had a role in the film Mac Gruber and appeared in the blockbuster romance new Year鈥檚 Eve.

10.  His Knee cartilage is damaged

Amar’e_Stoudemire_March_2012, photo by Scott Mecum Wikimedia Commons

This was during the 2005-2006 NBA pre-season; Stoudemire experienced knee cartilage damage. The damage made him undergo microfracture surgery. This was in the year 8th October 2005. They hoped to have him back by mid-February. Only unexpectedly, his rehab made him extend his recovery period. He came back later and scored well against Portland Trail Blazers, but his scoreless record was maintained in his next game, which was against New Jersey Nets. It was later announced that Stoudemire would miss the rest of the regular season because of stiffness in both knees. He went for more rehab and he gained his strength back, although he missed two thousand and six (2006), FIBA World Championship.

 Amare Stoudemire is a talented basketball player who played for the American National Basketball Association (NBA). He won the national team trophies as well; he earned himself fame and trophies. He has been an influencer to the nation and as well as basketball lovers. Amare, despite not playing organized football until he was the age of fourteen, still maneuvered through tough situations of playing, even in five different secondary schools. He has shown charity by building water wells in Sierra Leone for marginalized citizens and he has continued to influence through acting and his music label under him and his clothing collection.