Nothing happend on Sunday, due to Independence Day taking all the shine.
On Monday the New York Knicks and Amar’e Stoudemire found each other both alone and worried about their future.
The Knicks said Monday they intend to sign Stoudemire to a contract later this week when the free agent moratorium period ends. Stoudemire’s agent, Happy Walters, said the deal is for the maximum allowed, which would be nearly $100 million over five years.
Wearing a blue Knicks hat, Stoudemire said he looked forward to rebuilding a franchise and bringing the Knicks back to the top .
“I feel great about being a pioneer and showing my leadership,” he said at Madison Square Garden, where signs throughout the entrances showed the player pictured in a Knicks uniform and reading “Welcome, Amar’e Stoudemire.”
Stoudemire has spent his entire career in Phoenix, where he played under Mike D’Antoni before the coach came to New York in 2008. The Knicks desperately needed to come away with something in free agency after spending most of the last two years clearing enough salary-cap space to sign two maximum-contract players.
Now the Knicks have six players under contract for next season!
