{"id":692530,"date":"2026-04-01T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692530\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:19:38","slug":"suns-legend-amare-stoudemire-among-members-elected-to-naismith-basketball-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692530\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns legend Amar\u2019e Stoudemire among members elected to Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former Phoenix Suns star and Ring of Honor inductee Amar\u2019e Stoudemire is being inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He joins Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, and Doc Rivers in the Class of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The five-time all-star arrived in Phoenix as the 9th overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft. He won Rookie of the Year and made an All-NBA First-Team in 2007, along with four All-NBA Second-Team nods in 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2011. He ranks seventh in points (11,035) and third in rebounds (4,613) in Suns franchise history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Stoudemire helped shape an era in Phoenix as the dominant frontcourt presence in the team\u2019s high-powered \u201c7 Seconds or Less\u201d offenses of the mid-2000s. His blend of power, speed, and explosiveness made him one of the league\u2019s most dangerous interior scorers and a focal point of one of the NBA\u2019s most entertaining teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I will always remember him for his fearlessness around the rim. He wanted to dunk on anyone in his general vicinity. He went shot-for-shot with prime Tim Duncan at his peak. Some of the best posters in Suns history have come from Amar\u2019e.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Congratulations to STAT, it\u2019s a well-deserved honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Phoenix Suns star and Ring of Honor inductee Amar\u2019e Stoudemire is being inducted into the Naismith Basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604,10506,4728],"class_list":{"0":"post-692530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-phoenix","11":"tag-phoenix-suns","12":"tag-phoenixsuns","13":"tag-suns","14":"tag-suns-history","15":"tag-suns-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116331310193213853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}