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Suns need Stoudemire to become teen idol

By Scott Howard-Cooper
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, August 16, 2002

This Dream Teen actually arrives without abnormal hype, for a change. A year after the draft doubled as the senior prom, Amare Stoudemire, the best player to turn pro this time without having played in college and one of the best to come out without having attended college, lasted all the way to No. 9 and was overshadowed by the massive influx of foreign substances. But he did attend six high schools, so those college grown-ups don't have anything on him as far as being better-suited to adjust t ...

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