A word to the 'wise' Amare Hater.

If you are only going to link to an article and not actually discuss a point, then this should be a fanshot not a fanpost.

Just sayin.

I don’t hate Amare, just his attitude. If he cared as much about helping the team win as he does about his desire to be “the man”, he would easily be right up there with Tim Duncan, KG, Karl Malone, etc as one of the best to ever play his position. And guess what? He probably would be “the man” on the Suns because he would be someone the players would actually want to follow. That’s not saying he doesn’t care about winning, just that he seems to care about his own standing a lot more more. Maybe all players do, but most do a better job of hiding it and not sounding like they’d be positively miserable to be around day in, day out.

It was easy to make excuses for it when the team was winning (e.g., “he has to pump himself up in order to motivate himself”, “he’s just doing it all in fun”, “it’s amazing he’s where he is given his childhood”, etc), but now the excuses are growing thin, and nobody likes a guy who throws teammates under the bus while shirking responsibility for his team’s struggles. A true team leader says “hey, it’s on me”, even when it’s really not, and any employee who desires to be promoted takes the initiative to start seeking out additional responsibilities on his own, not waiting to be asked or “voted” into it. It’s a shame Amare never learned those valuable life lessons. All that said, nothing would make me happier than the Suns not finding a deal for Amare this season, and him finally “getting it” and becoming the truly great player he could be if he just focused on winning and stopped worrying about who gets the credit for it.