The business lines between hip-hop artists and NBA players continues to blur together as Fat Joe states he was approached by the New York Knicks to help in recruiting then free agent Amare Stoudemire. Joey Crack tells MTV:

The Knicks organization called me and said, ‘Yo Joe, we’re trying to get Amar’e.’ By the way, he’s my favorite player, no hype! That’s who I wanted to come to New York. It’s been a long time since New York had a guy to dunk on people, pound his chest, go crazy. That’s my type of player. Hard body. So they was like, ‘Joe, we want you to call him up, start talking to him. Tell him to come to the city, tell him how beautiful the city is.’ ‘Mare, I’ve known him for years — since he came in the league as rookie.”

Looks like the plan worked as Amare recently signed a max contract with the Knicks for a five year $100 million deal. Now let’s see if Jay-Z has the same luck recruiting LeBron over to the Nets. Guess we will find out later this afternoon. Via: RR