Amar'e Stoudemire Injury: Extinguisher Fiasco Is Fitting End to Bizarre Season

Amar'e Stoudemire battled a defiant glass encasing a fire extinguisher on Tuesday night. His bloody and lacerated hand will be the fitting portrait of a season that was far from picture perfect. 

If I was scripting an end the Knicks season, I might say screw it, just have one of the stars rip their hand in frustration. That might be the most poignant end to a tale that has been tough to look at sometimes. 

The Knicks don't care about aesthetics, because the bloody mess coming from Stoudemire is their reality. The star is most likely out after taking his animated frustration on an inanimate object. 

As ESPN reports, Amar'e Stoudemire was so incensed after Tuesday's loss to the Miami Heat that he punched the glass casing around a fire extinguisher. The glass won. 

The report also issues that he is almost certain to miss game 3. With that, we can board up the shops for the summer and go on vacation, because there is no way the Knicks take care of the Heat minus one of their stars. 

Slow Start

The Knicks really shouldn't be here. If you recall, the sky was falling roughly as soon as the season started, with the Knicks going 8-15 to start their campaign. 

The Knicks lacked a spark they would receiver out of nowhere, and their playoff hopes would be saved by a hero that was nameless to that point. 

Jeremy Lin Rise 

Where were you when Jeremy Lin dropped 25 points? How about 28, or even 38?

Whenever your entrance into "Linsanity" occurred, you were no doubt swept up in the mania at some point. 

We had a great story coming out of Manhattan and the Knicks were on a 7-game winning streak. Mike D'antoni's head was safe for the moment, and we all washed in the pools of optimism. 

This feel-good story felt pretty damn good, but it had to end at some point. 

Jeremy Lin Fall

Maybe it was when Lin was exposed as human when he played the Miami Heat, or some of the pedestrian games that followed. 

At some point, we all realized that Jeremy Lin and his surge to the top of our national consciousness wasn't the answer to the Knicks woes. 

However, he was certainly a necessary cog to their efforts, so it certainly hurt when he went down with a torn meniscus. Linsanity was put on hold. 

Mike D'Antoni < Mike Woodson

There was another rise and fall story, and it involved Mike D'Antoni being shown the door as the Knicks faltered, and the Knicks being born anew under Mike Woodson. 

The Knicks were playing defense, and Carmelo Anthony, at least the real Melo, finally decided to show up for the season. 

The Knicks looked every bit of a real threat to the Miami Heat heading into their series with the Heat. 

Whoops. 

How wrong we were about their chances, because we never took the time to consider the roller coaster must come to a screeching halt. 

A strike-shortened season that mandated a Jeremy Lin, and saw a coaching change, that turned into the return of a Melo, which caused an out of sorts Amar'e, meant a fire extinguisher had to be tested. 

There was no other way. 

This season was so bizarre and unusually engaging that it had to end with a bloody hand, and Knicks fans shaking their heads. 

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