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Amar'e Stoudemire has spoken about his fight with a fire extinguisher

It’s even funnier than we first suspected…

THE NEW YORK Knicks play the MIAMI Heat tonight in the first round of the NBA playoffs but Amar’e Stoudemire won’t play a minute because of his incident with the fire extinguisher.

Stoudemire tried to release some rage after the Knicks’ game on Monday when he punched a fire extinguisher, but his hand ended up a bloody mess.

After the tabloids poked fun at Stoudemire as much as possible, he told his side of the story to the New York Times:

“I was walking down the corridor frustrated that we were down, 0-2, and I swung my arm at the wall. The fire extinguisher door was 85 percent metal and 2 percent glass, or whatever. I didn’t see the glass.

“I swung my arm backward. It wasn’t like I had a closed fist and punched the glass. I was letting off a little frustration — trying to make some noise, not injure myself.

‘What?’

“When I saw that my hand was cut, I was like, what? I was very upset and upset with myself. But never in a million years did I think I would cut my hand.”

But Stoudemire is confident he’ll play on Sunday: “ I’m expecting to heal up fast, I think there’s a great chance I can play Sunday.”

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    Sep 18th 2013, 4:46 PM

    Idiot!!

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    Sep 18th 2013, 4:57 PM

    Yes you are Michael.

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    Sep 18th 2013, 5:02 PM

    Agree Michael – a bloody imbicile !

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    Sep 18th 2013, 9:43 PM

    Go back to sleep Bosco!

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    Sep 18th 2013, 8:33 PM

    One in a series of brain farts.

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    Sep 19th 2013, 11:07 PM

    On an entertaining note, it was pretty surreal seeing this picture! No-one has ever had the gall like Tuilagi to do that kind of stunt like he did, especially behind David Cameron!

    On a more serious note, he’d want to be careful! Jumping off a ferry in Auckland and now doing a bunny ears salute behind the head of one of the most powerful people in Britain suggests immaturity! He’d want to cut that out, because that bring s a bit of a bad name to English rugby!

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