PHOENIX — Spurs, Bulls, Knicks, Celtics, Mavericks. San Antonio, Chicago, New York, Boston, Dallas. The Phoenix Suns’ next five games – all on the road – could very easily make or break their season, which is dangerously close to spiraling out of control after the team suffered another home loss to another of the East’s […]
With a long road trip looming, the Phoenix Suns (4-6) can not really afford to drop Friday’s game against the New Jersey Nets (2-9). The game got a little tougher late Friday, though, as Alvin Gentry announced that both Steve Nash and Grant Hill will not be playing. Nash, who has an injured back, and […]
Michael Redd scored 12 points in his debut with the Suns Thursday night, showing that he is ready to finally see time on the court. Redd joined the Suns as a free agent after spending 11 years with the Milwaukee Bucks. He struggled with injuries — including ACL and MCL tears in his left knee […]
Despite the national attention Kobe Bryant’s opinion about the Suns has received, coach Alvin Gentry doesn’t take it personally and understands his reasoning. “I don’t have any [ill-feelings] toward what he said,” Gentry told Arizona Sports 620’s Burns and Gambo on Thursday. “We had a pretty good run against them before they got Pau (Gasol). […]
Two years and two days after tearing the ACL and MCL in his left knee for a second time, Michael Redd will make his Phoenix Suns debut Thursday against the Cleveland Cavaliers at US Airways Center. “He’ll go tonight,” said head coach Alvin Gentry, following shoot-around Thursday. “We’ll stick him in and see what’s going […]
Loyalty. Defined as “the state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations,” the topic has come up over the last few days on ArizonaSports.com on a variety of stories. The most recent case involves the Phoenix Suns and their point guard, leader and face of the franchise Steve Nash. In an interview […]
Lon Babby told Steve Nash that he’ll be a Phoenix Sun for as long as he wants to. The president of basketball operations told Arizona Sports 620’s Doug and Wolf the team will not look to trade the 37-year-old star, unless of course he decides he’d rather wear another team’s uniform. Could that decision lead […]
The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Phoenix Suns 99-83 on Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Kobe Bryant played like, well, Kobe Bryant, pumping in 48 points in the Lakers’ triumph. For 39 minutes, Bryant played like he hated the Phoenix Suns, and after the game he confirmed it. “I don’t like them, I don’t like […]
Kobe Bryant is a Suns killer. Bryant lit up the Suns for 48 points in Lakers’ win Tuesday night, his highest single-game point total in the regular season since he scored 49 against the Suns on March 1, 2009. In fact, Tuesday’s output marked the 9th time in 45 games since 2004 (when Nash returned […]
The Phoenix Suns are currently 4-4 after a shaky 1-3 start, yet they’re ranked 11th in the league according to ESPN analyst John Hollinger’s power rankings. The system is based off of points allowed and scored, recent performance, road and home games, and the strength of schedule. This method provides a better display of a […]
Don’t expect Steve Nash to ask for a trade. He hasn’t up to this point, and no matter how bad things may eventually get in the desert, he’s not planning on doing so in the future. In an interview with ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, Nash said the idea of moving him to a contender is a […]
Shannon Brown has just one request. “I just hope they don’t boo me.” Brown makes his first trip back to L.A. Tuesday when the Suns play the Lakers, Brown’s former team. He signed with the Suns as a free agent when the lockout was lifted. “It’s the first place I went to where I really […]
It turns out playing with a splint on a broken right thumb really is a hindrance. Marcin Gortat is living proof. In Sunday’s win over Milwaukee, the Suns center led all scorers with 18 points on 9-of-10 shooting. In the two games since having his splint removed, Gortat is shooting a blistering 83% from the […]
It’s sweeping the nation and on Sunday it was on display at US Airways Center. Hakim Warrick, in the Suns pre-game huddle, “Tebow’d”. “The crazy thing is,” he said afterwords, “as I was doing it I think that’s when he threw his 80-yard bomb.” Warrick, before dropping to one knee and placing his right hand […]
In his first four full seasons in the NBA, Channing Frye made a total of 20 three-point shots. So it came as a bit of a surprise when Frye landed in Phoenix, and immediately became one of the league’s premier long-distance shooters. Frye made 374 three- pointers from 2009 to 2011, the 2nd-highest total in […]
Before Sunday night’s game against Milwaukee, Suns head coach Alvin Gentry said Michael Redd is “almost” ready to make his debut. Gentry mentionned “stick(ing) him out there” for a couple of minutes when the Suns host Cleveland Thursday, which would be two weeks to the day after Redd signed. “That’s encouraging,” Redd responded when told […]
As a Suns starter last season Marcin Gortat grabbed almost 11 rebounds (10.8) a game. Through the first six games this season, he’s averaging 6.5 rebounds — unacceptable by his standards. Gortat, however, is coming off his best rebounding performance of the season. Against Dallas Wednesday night, he grabbed 10 boards — one more than […]
Teams can’t win games in the first quarter but they can certainly lose games in the first quarter. The Suns have lost the first quarter four times in their first six games, getting outscored 148-132. They are the only team in the league yet to hold a lead after the first twelve minutes of action. […]
The Phoenix Suns have notoriously been known around the league as a team that thrives off the run-and-gun offense. While the Suns haven’t resembled the high-octane offense of years past in the early going this season, it doesn’t appear they are abandoning their token trademark style of play anytime soon. “We want to stay up […]
Suns rookie Markieff Morris is playing 20 minutes a game for the team, averaging 9.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per contest. Numbers like that have put Morris in the company of some of the league’s best rookies, as he ranks eighth in scoring and is tied for second in rebounding. And, really, Morris has been […]
The NBA season has only been underway for a little more than a week, but because of the lockout, it’s already time to start thinking about the league’s annual All-Star Game. February 26th, the NBA’s best will descend upon Orlando’s Amway Center for the 61st NBA All-Star Game. On Wednesday, the ballots for fan voting […]
The Phoenix Suns head to American Airlines Center Wednesday to take on the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks with a 2-3 record in tow. But Dallas’ equally inauspicious start to the shortened NBA season has taken the focus off of the Suns’ struggles. Instead, the buzz around the league has centered on the Mavs’ surprisingly […]
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Russell Westbrook scored 18 points, Daequan Cook hit four 3-pointers in quick succession to help Oklahoma City pull away in the first half and the Thunder led wire to wire in a 107-97 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Saturday night. The Thunder improved to 5-0 and remained perfect in four New […]
The staff of ArizonaSports.com has compiled their list of the top 25 Arizona sports stories of the year 2011. We’ll be unveiling them over the next couple of weeks all leading up to the top story of 2011. When the NBA Finals ended last June with the Dallas Mavericks upsetting the Miami Heat to win […]
Former Phoenix Suns General Manager Steve Kerr knows this franchise, and his assessment of the team is quite telling. “The reality is you have to accept that to get good again, you have to be bad. It’s just the way it works in the NBA. And it’s a painful process,” Kerr said Thursday on Arizona […]
The Phoenix Suns have started the season with two losses, and if it’s possible, looking even worse than their 0-2 record would indicate. The offense has been abysmal and the defense not nearly good enough to compensate, and early indications are the Suns could be in for a long season. Though, if ESPN’s Jon Barry […]
There was a time when Michael Redd was considered to be one of the best players in the NBA, a great scorer who could shoot from pretty much anywhere on the floor. That, however, was more than four years ago, and since then the former All-Star has battled multiple knee injuries, ailments that essentially robbed […]
The Phoenix Suns are off to a nightmarish start to the season. After getting manhandled by the Philadelphia 76ers at home last night, 103-83 — their second home loss in as many games — one has to wonder if it’s time for the Suns to press the panic button. The warning signs go far beyond […]
The Phoenix Suns made it official on Thursday, inking former All-Star guard Michael Redd to a contract. Redd, 32, is an 11-year NBA veteran who has spent his entire career with the Milwaukee Bucks. Redd’s career scoring average is 20.0, and averaged a career-high 26.7 points per game in 2006-07. “Michael Redd has a proven […]
Steve Nash summed up Wednesday night’s 103-83 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers pretty succinctly. “That was about as bad a game as I’ve had personally, and team-wise it obviously was as well,” Nash said. Unfortunately, the two-time league MVP is right. Since returning to the Suns via free agency in 2004, Nash has played in […]
