Amar’e Stoudemire Still Seeking Greatness

Fanhouse NBA Blog - suns — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:07:00 +0000

On an early October morning in 2006, Ama're Stoudemire awoke in his Treviso, Italy, hotel room and headed downstairs for what would become one of the most memorable meals of his life.

It wasn't about the food as much as the company, and so it is that he can't recall what was on his plate that day when Stoudemire looks back . There was breakfast of some kind and there was coffee. And, of course, there was Bill Russell.

He remembers that part. Every word of it.

"I had a long, long conversation with him," Stoudemire told FanHouse while in Portland last week. "We just talked about what it takes to be a great player. He felt that I had the potential to become a great player."

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