GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- Amare Stoudemire has a way of throwing in an offbeat comment here and there, with a quick smile, in any difficult situation. He's always pretty upbeat no matter what's going on. The only time this season he wasn't like that was the week or so after the death of his older brother, Hazell, on Feb. 6.

After Friday morning's practice at the Knicks' training facility, Stoudemire had one of those kind of moments. While he was discussing his left hand laceration, suffered by hitting a fire extinguisher out of frustration after the team's Game 2 loss in Miami, he said he was hoping none of his teammates did the same thing Thursday night.

"It was fun to watch for the first half until the last minute of the first half when we cooled down a little bit," he said. "But the second half, it was a little tougher for me to watch because I wanted to go out there and play. I told the guys in the second half ... Some guys came off the court pretty upset and I was like don't hit anything. Keep your hands closed and don't hit anything because we don't need that type of injury again."

Stoudemire said the cut was "pretty significant" and only "a millimeter away from a nerve." He said he's not sure yet if he'll play in Game 4 on Sunday afternoon.

"I'll wait and see how the reaction is after work today," he said. "We'll see tomorrow how it feels. If it feels great tomorrow then I'll practice again tomorrow, and then we'll see for Sunday ... It's a little bit sore still."

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