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Amar'e Stoudemire: All-Star Ambassador

By Sam Alipour

Friday, February 13, 2009

It's just after 11pm on Thursday, and Amar'e Stoudemire is on a stage in a banquet room at the W Hotel accepting a humanitarian award for his work in Sierra Leone—building water wells, fact finding, spreading the game of basketball—this past offseason. The high-minded event, thrown by 944 Magazine, is an atypical opening to NBA All-Star Weekend festivities, and one that might suggest a toned down and buttoned-up four days ahead. But when the applause dies down, the Phoenix Suns b ...

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