Officially, Amar’e Stoudemire is a “player development assistant,” not an assistant coach but he answers to it, begrudgingly.
As Marc Stein reports for Thursday’s Times, the 38-year-old isn’t crazy about the title.
“I just never liked the title ‘Coach,’” Stoudemire told Stein. “There’s not a lot of swagger that comes with that title. I’m still not quite there yet. I’m still very young, and I like to feel young.”
And he doesn’t like either of his big men, 32-year-old DeAndre Jordan and 22-year-old Jarrett Allen calling him “Coach.” because it “has kind of an older vibe to it.