The Phoenix Suns are getting LeBron James. OK, maybe they aren’t. In fact, they’re probably not. But since The King decided to opt out of his contract with the Miami Heat, he will become a free agent and thus be able to sign with whatever team he chooses, which could be the Suns! Is it […]
Every day, ArizonaSports.com asks readers a question. It’s the Sanderson Ford Poll Question of the Day, and it can be found midway down the right side of our home page. On Tuesday, we asked you if the Phoenix Suns should bring back forward Channing Frye, who opted out of his contract on Monday. More than […]
Every day, ArizonaSports.com asks readers a question. It’s the Sanderson Ford Poll Question of the Day, and it can be found midway down the right side of our home page. On Sunday, we asked you which big-name free agent at power forward the Phoenix Suns should attempt to sign should they be unable to trade […]
Come July 1, Channing Frye will be a free agent. The Phoenix Suns forward officially opted out of the final year of his contract Monday, forgoing one year at $6.8 million to take his chances in free agency. Frye is coming off a season in which he started all 82 games and averaged 11.1 points […]
If there is one position the Phoenix Suns would appear to be set at, it’s point guard. The team’s two best players — Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe — are at that spot, and last season the duo formed a very dynamic backcourt. A guest of Bickley and Marotta on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM Monday, […]
PHOENIX — Among the 72 different names the Phoenix Suns worked out in the past month, there were four point guards, seven combo guards and 10 forwards, both at the small and power forward positions, who are projected — according to the many so-called experts — to be drafted in the first round, where the […]
Suns point guard Eric Bledsoe is a hot name in the looming NBA free agency period, ranking as the fourth most valuable player in this year’s class. Beginning July 1, all NBA teams can talk with Bledsoe, a restricted free agent, and sign him to an offer sheet as early as July 10. The Suns […]
One of the final pieces of the pre-Ryan McDonough and Jeff Hornacek Phoenix Suns may be on his way out of the Valley. ESPN’s Marc Stein tweeted Sunday that forward Channing Frye is “99 percent” going to choose free agency on Monday, which is the deadline for him to decide if he wants to play […]
The 2014 NBA free agent market market is filled with All-Stars both past and present. From LeBron James to Carmelo Anthony to Paul Pierce and Dirk Nowitzki, there will be no shortage of intrigue this summer when it comes to the league’s household names — restricted and unrestricted. But in his ranking of the 75 […]
PHOENIX — Michigan guard and expected lottery pick Nik Stauskas worked out for an NBA team on Friday, but it wasn’t the Phoenix Suns. He worked out for the Los Angeles Lakers, the third of the reported four teams he was due to visit ahead of next week’s draft. He had previously worked out for […]
“Starting at forward for the Phoenix Suns, 6-foot-9 from UCLA, Kevin Loooooove…” Admit it, you’ve envisioned what it would look like with Love in the spotlight at US Airways Center, wearing the orange and black while public address announcer Kip Helt belts out the above intro. The consensus is, that scenario will probably come no […]
Former Phoenix Suns head coach Alvin Gentry will be joining forces with ex-Suns general manager Steve Kerr in Golden State, according to multiple reports. In parts of five seasons, Gentry was 158-144 (.523) while at the helm in Phoenix, reaching the Western Conference finals in 2009. Gentry began his Suns tenure in Phoenix as an […]
The NBA offseason is in full swing, with the NBA Draft less than a week away and a number of teams looking to make improvements to their rosters. For the Phoenix Suns, the biggest remaining question mark is whether or not they can execute a trade for Kevin Love. The Suns have an embarrassment of […]
Unquestionably, Kevin Love will be the most sought after player on the NBA market this offseason. Although he won’t be an unrestricted free agent until next summer, the Minnesota Timberwolves forward might be eying a quick and painless departure from the Twin Cities — after all he’s accomplished almost everything in his six-year career except […]
There seems to be one certainty for the 2014 Suns draft: Four players from this draft will not be on the Suns’ training camp roster. The Suns have four draft picks next Thursday night. No one wants to draft a player that’s not good enough to make the team. If all four players make the […]
The Phoenix Suns shocked many in the 2013-2014 season by winning 48 games, which is 23 more games than the prior one, and finished one game back of a playoff spot. The result from the strong season was the Suns’ entering the lottery, but not as high as expected. The team’s first selection in the […]
There may be a serious lack of Phoenix Suns basketball in your life, especially given that the team hasn’t played a game since April 16. If you are struggling without the team, take this video of Gerald Green throwing down a monster dunk as just a taste of what you’re missing — and what could […]
Rumors are once again swirling about the Phoenix Suns’ potential interest in acquiring Minnesota Timberwolves superstar forward Kevin Love. The recent history of blockbuster deals in the NBA shows it will take a combination of high-profile players, draft picks and cash for the Suns to pull Love from the Timberwolves’ grasp. 2007 – Kevin Garnett […]
PHOENIX — Just because the steady stream of prospect visits has subsided does not mean the draft preparation has lessened. In other words, the lack of on-court activity is not a sign of inactivity. Quite the opposite, really. The Suns have not held a pre-draft workout in five days. They don’t have one scheduled again […]
P.J. Tucker picked a good time to have a breakout season. In his second year with the Phoenix Suns, the Texas product started all 81 games in which he appeared, and he put up career-best numbers of 9.4 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.4 steals in 30.7 minutes per game. He also shot a solid 38.7 […]
The Phoenix Suns will start Summer League against the Golden State Warriors, the team they played in last year’s inaugural NBA Summer League Championship. It will be new coach, and former Suns general manager, Steve Kerr’s first contest at the helm. The Suns and Warriors will play on Saturday, July 12, day two of the […]
PHOENIX — Good thing the Phoenix Suns’ practice court at US Airways Center was refurbished recently. It’s been used quite a lot the past two-and-a-half weeks. Counting Wednesday’s pre-draft workout, 66 different pairs of shoes have been running up and down the court. Missouri junior point guard Jordan Clarkson was the highest projected prospect among […]
With the Phoenix Suns finishing the season a game out of eighth place in the Western Conference, it’s only natural to wonder what the teams ahead of them have that they don’t. When asked what separates playoff teams from the Suns during the Doug and Wolf show on Arizona Sports 98.7, coach Jeff Hornacek said […]
Every day, ArizonaSports.com asks readers a question. It’s the Sanderson Ford Poll Question of the Day, and it can be found midway down the right side of our home page. On Sunday, we asked you which position the Phoenix Suns have the greatest need at as they enter the 2014 NBA draft. More than 800 […]
PHOENIX — For the record, the Suns do not have a west coast bias or a bias towards west coast players. It just appeared that way with four of the six draft hopefuls in Monday’s pre-draft workout hailing from the Pac-12. Conference tournament champion UCLA was well represented with sophomore point guard/small forward Kyle Anderson […]
It’s no secret that the Phoenix Suns are interested in packaging some of their 2014 draft picks for a player, and one NBA insider says one such move may be formulating. Yahoo! Sports’ Marc Spears tweeted Saturday that the Suns are interested in acquiring Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love — and those picks comprise one […]
PHOENIX — A handful of seniors are expected to hear their names called in round one of the June 26 NBA Draft. The Phoenix Suns worked out two of them on Friday in Michigan State power forward Adreian Payne and Washington shooting guard C.J. Wilcox. They joined a group of prospects that included UCLA sophomore […]
PHOENIX — Growing up in Gilbert, Nick Johnson followed the Phoenix Suns closely. “I was here when we had the squad of Steve Nash, Joe Johnson, Quentin Richardson, Amare (Stoudemire), all of them,” he said. “It was definitely one of the most exciting arenas in the NBA, and this year they got it back, I […]
The Phoenix Suns selected Shawn Marion out of UNLV in the first round of the 1999 NBA Draft. Marion spent 8.5 years with the Suns, represented them in four All-Star games and ranks in the franchise’s top five in field goals, three-pointers, rebounds, steals, blocked shots and points. However, Marion has only one championship ring, […]
PHOENIX — After entertaining a collection of first-round talent each of the past two days, the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday invited a group of draft hopefuls largely targeted for the second round for a workout, the team’s seventh in two weeks. The Suns own the 50th overall pick in addition to three first-round selections in […]
