Every day, we at ArizonaSports.com ask our readers a question. It’s the Sanderson Ford Poll Question of the Day, and it can be found midway down on the right hand side of our home page On Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, we asked a very simple question heading into the Phoenix Suns’ opener: How many games […]
The Phoenix Suns are not “tanking.” According to Lon Babby, the team’s president of basketball operations, no one within the organization is hoping the team loses game after game this season in hopes of landing a better draft pick. “I don’t know how you come to work every day and lead a group of people, […]
It’s just one game and it came against an underwhelming Portland Trail Blazers team, but the Phoenix Suns’ revamped frontcourt had a solid season debut in Wednesday’s 104-91 win at US Airways Center. Despite operating somewhat shorthanded with the recent trade of Marcin Gortat and the suspension of forward Markieff Morris, Phoenix’s bigs left their […]
A new coach plus new players — 10 of them, to be exact — equals a new result. Goran Dragic scored 26 points while backcourt mate Eric Bledsoe added 22 to help lead the Suns to a 104-91 season opening victory over the Portland Trail Blazers in front of 17,208 at US Airways Center. It […]
The 2013-14 NBA season is here! While it is clearly a rebuilding year here in Phoenix with the Suns, there is arguably more parity league-wide than we have seen in some time. The Miami Heat are the defending champs and are going for a three-peat (don’t sue us, Pat), but several teams are poised to […]
The Phoenix Suns’ season is set to get underway Wednesday night and one thing fans are excited for is the backcourt pairing of Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe. The two young players have primarily been point guards throughout their careers, but will be starting side-by-side, changing the styles or roles they might be used to. […]
The Phoenix Suns are in full rebuild mode. Whether or not they are “tanking” is a matter of interpretation, but it’s clear that they are ready to lose games in the name of getting playing time for young players as well as a better draft pick. And the funny thing is, fans seem to be […]
Last Friday’s trade of Marcin Gortat might have been an unofficial announcement that the Phoenix Suns are in full rebuild mode and setting their sights more on the future than on the season before them. Head coach Jeff Hornacek agreed Wednesday on Arizona Sports 620’s The Dan Bickley Show with Vince Marotta that wins will […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Typically team captains are chosen by player vote. This year, the Suns’ team captains were chosen by head coach vote. In other words, there was no vote. There was an appointment. First-year head coach Jeff Hornacek decided to name his starting backcourt, Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic, co-captains. “They’re in charge out […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Most would balk at being traded from a championship-contending team to one vying for more ping pong balls in the NBA draft lottery. Not Miles Plumlee. As rough as that slide down the NBA standings will be after leaving Indiana, the new Phoenix Suns center now finds himself with something not afforded […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Five hundred and fifty-seven days. That’s how long it’s been between NBA regular season games for Channing Frye. His 18-month hiatus ends Wednesday when the Suns host the Portland Trail Blazers to open the regular season. Frye is expected to be the team’s starting power forward. “Super special,” he said of having […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Newly acquired center Emeka Okafor has been issued uniform #50. Now whether or not he ever gets the opportunity to wear the Suns’ colors is still to be determined. Okafor, picked up in a trade with the Washington Wizards Friday, is dealing with a herniated disc in his neck. He missed all […]
As the Phoenix Suns get set to tip off the 2013-14 season, they are facing a considerable amount of questions. Few are of a positive nature, though, as most expect the team to struggle on a nightly basis. One area that is less concerning than intriguing is the backcourt, where Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe […]
The Phoenix Suns are one day away from a new era. Jeff Hornacek will make his debut as an NBA head coach Wednesday night as the Suns host the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2013-14 season opener for both teams at US Airways Center. The first-year head coach will take the court with one of […]
General manager Ryan McDonough’s first major move for the Phoenix Suns almost never came to fruition, even after all teams involved had agreed upon and announced the deal. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling tried to call off the deal that sent Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler to the […]
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Phoenix Suns forward Markieff Morris admits he and his brother have done it before: They’ve swapped uniforms in a game. “We did it before in AAU ball,” he said. “Mook (Marcus) had hurt his ankle. I had fouled out and took (my brother’s jersey) and played for him. I gave (the crowd […]
PHOENIX — From the moment the Suns drafted Alex Len with the fifth-overall pick, the plan was to bring the 7-foot-1 center along slowly. That is still the plan, but with the trade of Marcin Gortat to the Washington Wizards, the door is now open for Len to play right away, gaining valuable in-game experience […]
When the Phoenix Suns traded Marcin Gortat, along with guards Shannon Brown, Kendall Marshall and Malcolm Lee Friday to the Washington Wizards, only four players from last season’s team were left on the roster. Those four — Goran Dragic, Markieff and Marcus Morris and P.J. Tucker — are part of the foundation that will make […]
PHOENIX — Call it selling off the present to empower the future. Call it the ground stages of a reconstruction project that’s well overdue. Call it a shrewd start to Ryan McDonough’s tenure as an NBA general manager. But don’t call it tanking, at least not around those still left on the Phoenix Suns’ roster. […]
The Phoenix Suns find themselves in an awkward position on the court after the trade that sent Marcin Gortat and three others to the Washington Wizards. Now the team is not only without its center from the better part of the last three seasons, but the Suns are also taking it slow with first-round pick […]
The Phoenix Suns announced Saturday that they’ve exercised their 2014-15 options on forwards Markieff Morris and Marcus Morris, as well as center Miles Plumlee. Markieff Morris, the Suns’ first-round pick in the 2011 draft, has averaged almost eight points and five rebounds in 145 games. The Suns traded for his twin brother, Marcus Morris, midway […]
I can’t see the light, but I believe it’s there…and no, I don’t think it’s an oncoming train. The Phoenix Suns traded Marcin Gortat, Shannon Brown and Kendall Marshall for an under-achieving injured center and a draft pick. It doesn’t sound like a good deal. I love it. Draft. Draft. Draft. There were two incidents […]
Most prognostications had the Phoenix Suns being one of the NBA’s worst teams again this season, and there is little doubt the trade that sent center Marcin Gortat, among others, to the Washington Wizards has made them even worse. Indeed, it would appear the Suns are in full “tank mode,” doing whatever they can to […]
The trade that sent Marcin Gortat, Kendall Marshall, Shannon Brown and Malcolm Lee to the Washington Wizards for Emeka Okafor and a first-round pick shouldn’t really have come as much of a surprise. After all, the Phoenix Suns’ roster needed a makeover, and new GM Ryan McDonough has shown no hesitancy to make it happen. […]
The Phoenix Suns appear to be committing to the future as they traded Marcin Gortat and others to the Washington Wizards for injured center Emeka Okafor and a protected first round pick Friday. Gortat was one of the team’s most established and productive players, so according to ESPN’s Tom Penn, it’s clear what general manager […]
The most exciting day for the Phoenix Suns over the next year will be June 26th — the day of the 2014 NBA Draft. With the recent trade that sent Marcin Gortat, Shannon Brown, Kendall Marshall and Malcolm Lee to the Washington Wizards for Emeka Okafor and a protected first-round pick, the Suns have a […]
On Friday, the Phoenix Suns traded center Martin Gortat, along with guards Shannon Brown, Kendall Marshall and Malcolm Lee to the Washington Wizards. In return, the Suns received Emeka Okafor along with a protected first round pick. In the trade’s wake, commentary poured in via Twitter, both locally and nationally. Really like that trade for […]
Phoenix Suns general manager Ryan McDonough swung another trade Friday, sending center Marcin Gortat, point guard Kendall Marshall, guard Shannon Brown and guard Malcolm Lee to the Washington Wizards for center Emeka Okafor and a protected first-round pick. Marshall, a second-year player who was a first-round pick of the Suns in 2012, is excited for […]
The reshaping of the Phoenix Suns’ roster continued Friday, as the team traded center Marcin Gortat, point guard Kendall Marshall shooting guard Shannon Brown and guard Malcolm Lee to the Washington Wizards. ESPN’s Marc Stein was first to report the parameters of the deal, which has the Suns receiving center Emeka Okafor and a lottery-protected […]
The Phoenix Suns’ President of Basketball Operations, Lon Babby, believes his team had a great preseason, which it finished at 5-2. “We are a summer league and preseason juggernaut,” he told Arizona Sports 620’s Dan Bickley Show with Vince Marotta, jokingly. “I thought it was a terrific preseason, not because we won five games — […]
