Amare Stoudemire: 'Great chance' he can play in Game 4

Amare Stoudemire says there's a "great chance" he can play in Game 4 of the New York Knicks' series against the Miami Heat on Sunday despite cutting his left hand on a fire extinguisher case and having surgery on Tuesday.

Stoudemire will not play in Thursday's Game 3 and is considered “doubtful” for Game 4, but Stoudemire says he's "not totally sure yet" if he’s out for Sunday. The prevailing expectation was that he would not be able to play for the remainder of the series, which the Heat lead, 2-0.

"I just persevere through a lot of injuries and work hard to recover from injuries," Stoudemire said, according to the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, a person who witnessed Stoudemire punching the glass enclosure at American Airlines Arena on Monday offered a gruesome account of the incident, telling ESPN, "Half of his hand was just hanging off. It was really bad,” the source said. “Blood was just squirting out. That's why they had the paramedics come in, because they thought he might have punctured an artery because of how much blood was coming out. ... "

"He didn't haul off and punch the glass; he hit it out of frustration," the witness added. "He kind of slapped it, but with a closed fist. He said he thought it was plastic instead of glass."