SI.com · Feb 3, 2020
Amar’e Stoudemire Is Home (And Playing) Again
It’s a little after 2 p.m. Israeli time and the 6’10’’ Amar’e Stoudemire walks out on to the arrivals concourse of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. Wearing a blue Maccabi Tel Aviv polo with the team’s trademark yellow scarf denoting its six European championships draped around his neck, he immediately encounters a scrum of reporters. With a black kippah covering his head, Stoudemire briefly answers a few questions, before posing for a handful of pictures. “There’s no place like home, being back here in Israel,” he tells Sports Illustrated a little over two hours after his arrival.