What sprung to mind, for Mike D’Antoni, was laughing. The feeling of watching Amar’e Stoudemire doing what he could do — what seemingly only he could do — and being overcome by an involuntary physical expression of pleasure.

So many times, I would come to the timeout and just giggle,” Stoudemire’s former head coach told reporters this spring. “The rim is still shaking [after] how hard he just dunked the basketball, and guys are like … they’re stunned. I’m looking like, ‘Oh my gosh.'”

“He was incredible,” D’Antoni said.

Stoudemire was incredible: a 6-foot-10, 245-pound elevating-and-detonating marvel, a six-time All-Star and five-time All-NBA…

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