Amar'e Stoudemire, a former NBA star, was reportedly detained after allegedly hitting his daughter.

 


According to David J. Neal and David Ovalle of the Miami Herald, former six-time NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire was taken into custody on Sunday on a charge of misdemeanor violence.


Stoudemire "punched her in the mouth and smacked her hard enough to draw blood," one of his children told police.

The girl had blood stains on her sweatshirt and slacks, the officer noted in their report. Additionally, her mother sent police a picture of her daughter sobbing and with blood streaming down her face.

According to Neal and Ovalle, Stoudemire allegedly objected to the way his daughter greeted her grandma at his condo:

When the daughter denied having such a tone with her grandmother, she said her father "then responded with 'You're talking back again' and punched her on the right side of her jaw.' As a follow up, she said, he slapped her face, bloodying her nose "and continued slapping her on the left side of her body."

The youngster then asked her mother, Alexis, who is Stoudemire's ex-wife, to pick her up. Her daughter "was unhappy because she received a whooping from him for being rude and a liar," Stoudemire told police, according to what she said.

Stoudemire played in the NBA for 14 seasons, spending time with the Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, and New York Knicks. He participated in the BIG3 league and played elsewhere as well.

In October 2020, the 40-year-old joined the Brooklyn Nets in a player development position. He said in May that he would not be joining the team for the 2022–23 campaign.

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