Boris poked Amare in the eye

MaryvalesFinest · Post #1 » by **MaryvalesFinest** » Thu Oct 2, 2008 8:55 pm

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/ar ... reeye.html

Stoudemire has injured eye examined
by Paul Coro - Oct. 2, 2008 12:51 PM
The Arizona Republic
Suns power forward Amare Stoudemire missed Thursday morning's practice in Tucson because he had returned to Phoenix to have a torn iris in his right eye examined.

Stoudemire was poked in the eye by Boris Diaw during Wednesday night's scrimmage. He is expected to return to Tucson tonight but will not participate because his eyes were dilated by the Suns team ophthalmologist, Jay Schwartz, during an exam today.

"He got hit pretty hard," Suns General Manager Steve Kerr said. "He had some damage to his iris, which is not serious fortunately. No damage to the cornea or retina."

Stoudemire is expected to be able to return to action wearing goggles on Friday, when the Suns have a 5 p.m. public scrimmage at McKale Center

Good to hear Amare is alright and not much damage anyway.

PHXfan85 · Post #2 » by **PHXfan85** » Thu Oct 2, 2008 9:11 pm

To me, this is the definition of offseason NBA news regarding the Phoenix Suns. lol

-SDU- · Post #3 » by **-SDU-** » Thu Oct 2, 2008 10:06 pm

thats one way to get more minutes

tomorrows headline

"dragic concusses nash....."

Post #4 » by **lilfishi22** » Thu Oct 2, 2008 11:38 pm

ooo goggles sounds cool

b-ball forever · Post #5 » by **b-ball forever** » Thu Oct 2, 2008 11:58 pm

Kewl!

Just hope Amare doesn't try pulling any sorta revenge moves on Diaw when they face off in the scrimmage :lol:

b-ball forever · Post #6 » by **b-ball forever** » Fri Oct 3, 2008 12:33 am

Speaking of the scrimmage, anybody know what the 2 teams will look like?

Logically, the matchups will be :

Nash vs Dragic
Bell vs Barbs
Barnes vs Hill
Amare vs Diaw
Shaq vs Lopez

But who's gonna play with who? They gonna go starters vs reserves or what?

nevetsov · Post #7 » by **nevetsov** » Fri Oct 3, 2008 12:57 am

b-ball forever wrote:Speaking of the scrimmage, anybody know what the 2 teams will look like?

Logically, the matchups will be :

Nash vs Dragic
Bell vs Barbs
Barnes vs Hill
Amare vs Diaw
Shaq vs Lopez

But who's gonna play with who? They gonna go starters vs reserves or what?

Each team will have one each of those you would think

plus one of Singletary or Hite

plus Amundson or Tucker

Maybe

Nash
Singletary
Bell
Tucker
Diaw
Amundson
O'Neal

and

Dragic
Hite
Barbosa
Barnes
Hill
Amare
Lopez

b-ball forever · Post #8 » by **b-ball forever** » Fri Oct 3, 2008 1:22 am

^^Yeah, I rather see us do that then go starters vs bench players.

Good thing this year our scrubs are young, high energy guys like Admunson and Singletary instead of wash ups like Pike or Marks

daveang · Post #9 » by **daveang** » Fri Oct 3, 2008 3:02 am

Seems as though Amare will be fine, touch wood! Same goes for all guys in training camp, please stay healthy!

I see similarly a First Unit/Second Unit going head to head at each other in scrimmages. Then again, who knows what Porter is likely to do.....

It seems that camp has been successful so far, hopefully the players continue to warm to each other and to Porter. I'm keen to see what Dragic and Lopez can do on the floor!

garrick · Post #10 » by **garrick** » Fri Oct 3, 2008 3:36 am

I say all Suns players must now wear goggles for added protection when Diaw is present.

Post #11 » by **TASTIC** » Fri Oct 3, 2008 6:17 am

Jesus we're so (Please Use More Appropriate Word) this early it's like a Three Stooges skit...Move it chowderhead!

haha

stood-amire · Post #12 » by **stood-amire** » Fri Oct 3, 2008 3:48 pm

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/54674/20081003/suns_stoudemire_injures_eye_will_miss_scrimmage/

Hope he doesn't realy need to wear those goggles for the rest of his career. Man, this guy just never runs out of bad luck :-?

BurningHeart · Post #13 » by **BurningHeart** » Sat Oct 4, 2008 5:23 am

Goggles for the rest of his career?!

UGLY!

Post #14 » by **lilfishi22** » Sat Oct 4, 2008 5:26 pm

That's terrible. I feel bad for Amare. And for Boris as well. He must be guilt-ridden hard. I hope he doesn't have to wear them goggles for the rest of his career. But then again maybe we'll some some Kareem-esque defense from him.

skEwb · Post #15 » by **skEwb** » Sat Oct 4, 2008 6:53 pm

Shouldda signed my jersey! 7 years of bad luck! Amare and Nash refused to sign for me and a group of little kids I brought to meet them, but Diaw and Piatkowski were true gentlemen!

I'm kidding of course, it's all good they were all nice. I'm sure they don't have time for everyone

suns32 · Post #16 » by **suns32** » Sun Oct 5, 2008 6:50 am

It will be interesting to see Amare with goggles.
Maybe now we will see Some kareem esque hook shots from him.

Nash2Stoudemire · Post #17 » by **Nash2Stoudemire** » Mon Oct 6, 2008 1:11 pm

Freak accident... Feel bad for Stat

At least we know that Amare will make the best of it and rock some mad shades...

Imagine if it were Nash or Hill... :lol: