NEW YORK — Amar’e Stoudemire looks comfortable as the keynote speaker at Deloitte’s Israel Dealmakers Summit. He laughs easily when asked about a touchy subject like the future of the New York Knicks. He’s able to speak with entrepreneurs and investors from Israel and the U.S. about everything from investing to basketball. He helps snap selfies in the elevator on his way out of Rockefeller Center.
And if there are startups out there looking for partnerships with Stoudemire and his network of friends, he is all ears.
After 14 years in the NBA, the six-time All-Star Stoudemire played this past season for Hapoel Jerusalem — a team he partially owns — and it has opened up his world even more to tech investing as Israel is a sports technology hotbed.