Commentary

Buyer's Guide: Amare Stoudemire

Someone will pay big money for Stoudemire, but he also represents serious risk

Updated: June 18, 2010, 2:51 PM ET

By Tom Haberstroh | Special to ESPN Insider

For the next few weeks, ESPN Insider will be analyzing NBA free agents not named LeBron James (we covered him pretty extensively a few weeks ago, and there's always the LeBron Tracker). To follow the entire series, click here. Next up: Amare Stoudemire.

Overall assessment

With yet another failed mission to the NBA Finals, the book may finally be out on Amare Stoudemire: He's as electric as he is one-dimensional. Be that as it may, it probably won't deter at least one team from handing him a max contract this summer.

To see what Amare Stoudemire is really worth -- including assessments from NBA executives, next-level stats and scouting reports of how he'd fit on various teams -- plus a recommendation for where he should land this summer, you must be an ESPN Insider.