Amar’e Stoudemire

Amar'e Stoudemire: Biography in Details

Who is Amar’e Stoudemire?

Amar’e Stoudemire is an American retired expert basketball player of the National Basketball Association. He played for 15 years of his career and currently holds his profession as an actor and producer.

Amar’e Stoudemire: Age, Parents, Ethnicity

Born as Amaré Carsares Stoudemire, on November 16, 1982, in Lake Wales, Florida, USA. Currently, he is 38 years old. He had a brother named Hazell Stoudemire Jr. and a younger half-brother named Marwan Wilmore. He is the son of Carrie and Hazell.

Police arrested Carrie many times for crimes like petty theft and forgery.

His father Hazell used to do lawn care and landscaping trained the Pop Warner football team his children played on and blew a mean saxophone.

His father passed away when Amar’e was 12 due to a heart attack.

Amar’e currently stays with his wife Alexis Welch, two daughters Assata and Aré, and a son named Amar’e Stoudemire.

In which school did Amar’e Stoudemire attend?

Stoudemire exchanged between five secondary schools in two states under six unique circumstances.

He initially went to Lake Wales High School in Lake Wales, Florida. He then went to Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, North Carolina in October 1999.

For his further studies, he went to Emanuel Christian Academy in Leland, North Carolina, and moved to West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida.

His last move was to Cypress Creek High School in Orlando, Florida. Stoudemire completed his graduation from Cypress Creek High School. He later completed his study at the University of Miami.

Body Measurements: Height, Weight

As for his body measurements, Stoudemire is 6 feet 11 inches (2.08m) tall and weighs 111kg. Furthermore, he has an athletic body and dark blue colored eyes, black hair.

Amar’e Stoudemire: Professional Life, Career

Because of the considerable number of exchanges in schools, Stoudemire missed his whole junior year of basketball. Aside from b-ball, Stoudemire exceeded expectations in football.

Stoudemire did not begin playing basketball until the point that he was 14 years old. He just played two years of it in secondary school, however, in both, they called him the MVP of the Nike Summer League.

Among Stoudemire’s secondary school respects was being chosen to play in the 2002 McDonald’s All-American Game at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

With his greatest objective in secondary school being making it to the NBA, Stoudemire focused on the University of Memphis.

In any case, he later de-submitted and pronounced for the NBA draft on Phoenix Suns, being taken with the ninth pick in the 2002 NBA draft. Also, he was the main secondary school player taken that year in the first round.

Awards & Achievements

They additionally called him Florida’s Mr. Basketball, to USA Today’s All-USA Basketball First Team, and the Orlando Sentinel’s Florida High School Player of the Year.

On December 30, 2002, Stoudemire had his highest score by a prep-to-pro player. Later, in 2003, Stoudemire won the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award, winning over Yao Ming and Caron Butler.

In the year 2002, he was honored with the titles like Orlando Sentinel Florida High School Player of the Year, USAToday All-USA Basketball First Team, and Prep Stars Recruiter’s Handbook #1 High School Player in the United States. Likewise, he and his team were honored as NBA All-Rookie First team.

Furthermore, the team won the title of MVP(NBA All-Star Rookie Challenge) in 2004. He was NBA All-Star in the years 2005, 2007-2011, and was awarded as All NBA Second Team in the year 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011. ‘

Moreover, Stoudemire won the NBA’s Community Assist Award in the year 2008 and was the Israeli League Champion and Israeli League Cup winner in the years 2017 and 2016 respectively.

How much is the net worth of Amar’e Stoudemire?

Stoudemire’s 2015s earnings were $25 million and as of a recent report, his salary is $1.499million and his net worth is $70 million.

Amar’e Stoudemire: Rumors and Controversy

According to a report of September 2017, he announced in his Instagram post saying he is retiring from basketball but also would like to return for another season.

In March 2017, he apologized for his statements saying his teammates are gay.

Social Media

Stoudemire has about 1.2 million followers on his Facebook account and about 754k followers on his Instagram account. As for his Twitter account, he has about 1 million followers.

This basketball player has gained much fame on his social accounts too.

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