re: Players who looked great with other stars and got exposed on their own

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Amare Stoudemire was never as good as Steve Nash made him look.
I would argue his severe injuries were more crippling to his career

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This-- having an elite PG certainly helped-- in the same way it helps Deandre Jordan and to a lesser extent Blake Griffin-- a guy who can get an athletic forward/center the ball in stride as they crash the rim is huge-- but even with Nash, Amare had like 3 or 4 more good years at best-- he wasn't even really injured again so much as his knee had a lifespan post-microfracture and was constantly deteriorating.