Steve Kerr’s Departure Affects Amar’e Stoudemire’s Decision
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by Sam AmickFiled under: Suns, NBA Rumors, NBA Transactions, NBA Free AgentsWhen Happy Walters answered the phone on Tuesday afternoon, the agent for Phoenix forward Amar'e Stoudemire hardly lived up to his name.
Asked how he was doing, he replied with, "I've had better days."
The root of his unhappiness was the sudden departure of Phoenix president of basketball operations Steve Kerr, the man with whom Walters had worked with for so long to keep Stoudemire in the Valley of the Sun. Over the course of the past few months, the two men negotiated about as amicably as parties on opposing sides ...