National Basketball Association

Pacers poke fun at Knicks' Stoudemire

Published May. 3, 2012 1:00 a.m. ET

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The Indiana Pacers' training staff did not want to take any chances when it came to the Amway Center's fire extinguishers.

With Indiana playing Game 3 of its opening-round series in Orlando on Wednesday night, team staffers put masking tape and a "Please do not hit" tag on the fire extinguisher near the team's locker room.

The joke came one day after Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire hit a fire extinguisher after a loss in Miami, suffering a severe hand laceration that required surgery to repair a muscle.

He missed Game 3 Thursday night and could miss the rest of the series.

Former Pacers forward and current Fox Sports Indiana analyst Austin Croshere took a photo of it and posted it on his Twitter account.

"The Pacers training staff is taking injury prevention to a whole new level!" he wrote.

There was no need to worry about frustration though, as the Pacers won Game 3 against the Magic to take a 2-1 series lead.