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Amar’e Stoudemire slammed as sad homophobic man-child

Amar’e Stoudemire has enough to worry about as the co-owner and ostensible star of a team in a second-rate Israeli basketball league. He probably didn’t need to attract the attention of a pair of ex-NBA players who slammed the former Knick’s homophobic views.

After Stoudemire told an Israeli website he would “shower across the street” and “take a different route to the gym” to avoid a gay teammate, gay ex-pros Jason Collins and John Amaechi got in their jabs against Stoudemire.

Amaechi got particularly personal in his criticisms, telling TMZ, “These are serious times, and we need serious people to lead important conversations, not petulant man-children sprouting puerile prejudice.