Fan Calls Out Amare Stoudemire On Instagram, Amare Responds By Jumping In The Fan's DMs And Demanding A Face-To-Face Meeting
Just when the mushroom cloud from the Russell Westbrook Woj Bomb settled and it looked like #ThisLeague would finally take a short break from drama, down drops Amare Stoudemire from the clouds to turn an Instagram post into a modern day Pro vs. Joe Meet Me In Temecula showdown.
Now let me say I really don’t have any problem with either side of this internet kerfuffle. I would rather have my eyes melted like the Nazis that saw the Ark of the Covenant than read a compliment about James Dolan. I also know that those very same eyes didn’t see much of Amare Stoudemire on the floor as a Knick because his body broke the fuck down just as everyone feared it would (shout out Mike D’Antoni for speeding up the process by grinding Amare’s knees into dust while he chased that 30 point streak, which to be fair was a Top 5 highlight in this century of Knicks sadness). Luckily for Amare’s sake, the $100 million dollar check James Dolan cut him allowed his body to land safely on a cloud and regenerate in the finest red wine money could buy.
HOWEVA, I appreciate STAT going back at this fan because that’s what social media is all about. Direct contact between the writer and the reader without a middleman. I don’t know if that contact is some healthy basketball talk in a face-to-face setting at the Space Needle or slapping some sense into a fan in secret room at the NBAPA’s office without cameras like the one Terry Benedict had at the Bellagio. But if it’s the latter, my advice to this fan would be to pray Amare’s notoriously fragile body suffers a similar fate the last time he mixed it up with something that rubbed him the wrong way.
Now the entire basketball community sits and waits with all eyes on the Space Needle to see if Amare will fly across the country on Tuesday and create the biggest NBA moment to happen in Seattle since GP and the Reignman took on MJ and the Bulls in the Finals 23 years ago.
The most ironic part of all of this is that an actual fight would lead to that fan potentially ending up with some of Amare’s hard-earned Dolan blood money following what would likely be a very straightforward assault lawsuit.
Even though this exchange between Amare and this fan was fun, it unfortunately still gets the bronze medal for Best Social Media Exchange between those early 2010s Knicks (pending an actual meeting in Temecula Seattle).
Silver Medalist:
Gold Medalist:
#KNICKSTAPE, man. What a time to be alive it truly was.