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 […]
Nobody will deny that through two games, the Phoenix Suns are struggling mightily with their offense. But help could be on the way. Arizona Sports 620’s John Gambadoro tweeted on Wednesday night after Phoenix’s 103-83 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers that the Suns are expected to sign free agent guard Michael Redd to a contract […]
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns were hoping to rebound from a lethargic offensive performance in their season-opening loss to the New Orleans Hornets. Instead, their offense took a step backward in an embarrassing 103-83 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers at U.S. Airways Center. The Suns struggled mightily offensively in the first half and trailed 48-34 […]
Eric Gordon was dribbling the clock down as the fourth quarter came to a close with the Hornets trailing the Suns by one. Jared Dudley was in front of him, and the second Dudley took a slight step back Gordon rose and fired for what became the game winning shot. It wasn’t bad defense, but […]
The Phoenix Suns’ 85-84 loss on opening night to the New Orleans Hornets made Planet Orange’s eyes bleed. A fan base accustomed to a potent offense isn’t used to seeing the Suns struggle through a game with fewer than 90 points. Head coach Alvin Gentry has a solution. “We got to become more of a […]
In the Steve Nash era one issue you never had to worry about was the Phoenix Suns’ offense. Might this be changing right before our eyes? In Monday’s opening night loss the Phoenix Suns fell to the New Orleans Hornets 85-84. Since Steve Nash has been on the Suns, 2004-05 season to the present, their […]
PHOENIX — Alvin Gentry walked into the media room and began his post-game press conference. Three minutes and six seconds later he was finished with his opening monologue, in which he covered his team’s 85-84 loss, the struggle to close out games and the impressive play from his centers. It was a lot to take […]
The name across the front of the jerseys and the colors will be the same, but everything else about the Phoenix Suns opening night opponent, the New Orleans Hornets will be different. The two teams split their four meetings last year, but that has become an irrelevant barometer with the Hornets featuring eight new players […]
The Phoenix Suns open their 2011-2012 campaign Monday night at U.S. Airways Center against the New Orleans Hornets. The lockout-shortened season features a grueling 66 games in 121 days which could prove to be especially difficult for a veteran Suns bunch. The average age of Phoenix’s roster is 28. Could this be something the Suns […]
PHOENIX — Suns head coach Alvin Gentry said no one gives out trophies for preseason victories. It’s a good thing he’s right, because the Suns would have nothing to show for the work they’ve put in so far this season. Phoenix lost its only two preseason games — both to the Denver Nuggets — by […]
Even though a trade that would have sent Mickael Pietrus to Toronto from Phoenix was voided after he failed a physical, one could reasonably assume the swingman’s days in the Valley were numbered. They were. The Suns announced Thursday that they have waived the veteran, trimming the roster to 14 players. Acquired along with Marcin […]
Marcin Gortat insists the only game he will miss is Thursday’s preseason finale. “You’ve got to cut my arm, cut my head off to make sure I’m not going to play. As long as I can walk, as long as I can see everything, I’m going to be playing.” Gortat suffered a non-displaced fracture on […]
Preseason or not, head coach Alvin Gentry expects his team to be ready to play. They were not Tuesday night. The Suns lost their preseason opener at Denver, 127-110. “We didn’t play very good,” Gentry said after a two-hour- plus practice Wednesday. “I was really disappointed. For us, the energy level wasn’t where I thought […]
He played with a broken nose last season. It looks as though he’ll play the start of this season with a broken thumb. Suns center Marcin Gortat suffered a “slight non-displaced fracture on the top of his right thumb” in [Tuesday] night’s preseason game at Denver according to team president of basketball operations Lon Babby. […]
Not only did the Phoenix Suns lose their preseason opener to the Denver Nuggets 127-110 on Tuesday night. Starting center Marcin Gortat also suffered an injury in the loss. The fifth-year pro tweeted following the game that he suffered a broken thumb in the game against Denver. Great start!!! Lost game and broken thumb!!! Awsome….last […]
Optimistic Suns fans may want to avoid ESPN.com for a little while. Monday, Chad Ford wrote that the future is bleak for the team, and Tuesday saw John Hollinger write the same thing about the team’s present. According to Hollinger, the Suns will finish the season 14th out of 15 Western Conference teams with a […]
The Phoenix Suns didn’t do much to overhaul their roster in the shortened offseason, with their key moves being the re-signing of Grant Hill, drafting of Markieff Morris and signings of Shannon Brown, Ronnie Price and Sebastian Telfair. It is those moves — and the lack of any other — that led ESPN’s Chad Ford […]
In just over half a season in Phoenix, Marcin Gortat surpassed a lot of what he had accomplished in a little over three seasons with Orlando. The list includes more points, more points per game, more rebounds per game and more blocks per game. He also set several Suns single-season marks with the number of […]
Steve Nash knows his career may not finish in Phoenix, but that doesn’t mean he won’t always be a Sun. A guest on Arizona Sports 620’s Doug and Wolf Friday, Nash said he thinks of the Suns in the same way he does his high school and college team. “That’s my team forever,” he said. […]
It’s the biggest question of Suns training camp. No, not who is going to be the back-up point guard or starting shooting guard. It’s, how many dunks will Jared Dudley have in 2011-2012? “Eighteen!” he stated during the team’s one-week stay at Grand Canyon University. “Eighteen?” said a wide-eyed Steve Nash as he walked by. […]
