Is Amare Stoudemire Really Worth Paying $100 Millon For 5 Years With the Knicks?

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If this was a younger Stoudemire that was around 25 years of age or less and never got his past knee injury than I would say yes. Hes still young as far as an average person is concerned but as far as nba playing age is concerned hes not that young. He will be 28 around the beginning of this coming NBA season. His playing ability will probably decline in the following 2 to 3 years like many past NBA players. On top of this Amare Stoudemire had a knee injury that gave him problems and kept him out for well over a season earlier in his career. He still has knee problems every once in a while and has to sit out a few games so the knee problem he had never really got better entirely. Since that knee injury he can't do powerful dunks and attack the rim as much as he use to although he still is a powerful dunker and is still good at attacking the basket. He also averaged over 25 points a game before the knee injury ever occurred which he hasn't done since. Before Amare had that knee injury he reminded of a younger shaq that could attack the basket with powerful dunks except he was better because he was also good from the free throw line. Stoudemires rebounding should be better for his size as well and honestly hes really bad at rebounding considering his size and playing ability. With all this being said I've concluded that I don't think hes worth a 5 year $100 Million contract he just signed with the Knicks. The only clear hope now for the Knicks is to sign Lebron James to a contract if they want to get far into the playoffs as I don't see it happening with the newly signed Amare Stoudemire.