Boston ? Celtics forward Paul Pierce, above, testified he was attacked from all directions, left bloodied and asked emergency room doctors whether he would live after being stabbed two years ago.

Pierce, a Kansas University product testifying Tuesday in the trial of three men charged in the assault, said he walked into the pool room of a Boston club and talked briefly with two women on Sept. 25, 2000. A man standing nearby told Pierce one of the women was his sister.

“I looked him in the face and I told him, you know, ‘No disrespect,”‘ Pierce told the jury.

Pierce said the man, whom he did not identify, “looked at me like he had a problem with me. I sensed a little animosity.”

The next thing he knew, Pierce said, he was being attacked by people from all sides. He stumbled backward, felt “stinging blows” and was hit in the head with a bottle that felt “like a rock coming down on my head.

“So many people were on me that I was just trying to get them off of me,” he said.

Security guards dragged Pierce into a stairwell, where he lifted his blood-soaked T-shirt and realized he had been stabbed.

“I kept asking the doctors if I was going to make it through, if I was going to live through it, because at the time there was so much blood I didn’t know what to think,” Pierce said.

Anthony Hurston, William Ragland and Trevor Watson are accused of stabbing Pierce and hitting him over the head with a champagne bottle.