<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">But back in 2002, Stoudemire's can't-miss status was shaky. The Suns were just about alone in seeing Stoudemire as a gamble worth taking. He had shuffled through an array of high schools, including two failed stints in North Carolina, first at Mount Zion Christian Academy and then briefly at Emmanuel Christian -- which, as an HBO segment on Stoudemire revealed, turned out to be only one classroom of students, made up entirely of the basketball team. Stoudemire also shuffled through guardians because his mother and older brother were in jail. He had been academically ineligible his junior year and had led his team to a measly 16-13 record as a senior</div> Source
That's a nice read. watched that show on HBO a few years ago about Amare and he really impressed me. It's always good to see a guy rise above all of the hard things in life and become a great person and a great basketball player. I also heard that his brother, when he wasn't in jail, tried to keep Amare away from all of the drugs and other stuff like that, so I think if it wasn't for his brother, we wouldn't know who Amare Stoudimre is today.
In addition, in his rookie year, before they cleaned house in the clubhouse, Amare was surrounded by a good group of mentoring veterans like Scott Williams.
