Before the injuries began to take their toll, there was a time when few frontcourt players in basketball were more explosive than Amar'e Stoudemire.

With Stoudemire preparing to take his rightful place in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Gavriel Wilkins and Torrence Stagger turn back the clock on Second Chance Points to reflect on the 14-year NBA career of the man known simply as STAT.

From his emergence as one of the NBA's brightest young stars in Phoenix to becoming a key centerpiece of the revolutionary Seven Seconds or Less Suns, the two discuss what made Stoudemire such a dominant force at his peak, his chemistry alongside Steve Nash and the numerous playoff battles and what-ifs that continue to define that era of Suns basketball. Before taking a moment to revisit his remarkable return from microfracture surgery, whether Pho ...