Steve Nash left Phoenix's loss to Dallas on Friday night in the first quarter with an apparent neck stinger.

Nash collided with Tyson Chandler while scrambling for a loose ball. He appeared to dive into Chandler's hip and he was down for several minutes before limping to the bench.

"Just a weird night from that standpoint," Dirk Nowitzki said after the game. "We were all on the court; he's laying there screaming, 'I can't feel my hands.' So that was one of the weirdest things I've obviously ever seen, so very, very unfortunate. Hopefully he'll be OK. He's a warrior, and he'll recover quick."

Nash didn't return to the game and was replaced by Goran Dragic.

"I just bumped my head at a weird angle and had a spinal-cord situation, lost feeling in my arms and legs," Nash said. "There were 10 seconds there that were really scary, but it came back and they just didn't feel like it was worth risking it tonight. We'll see how it goes tomorrow, but I'm optimistic about the amount that it improved already that hopefully I will be able to play Sunday or Monday."