Dirk Nowitzki

De-Gentrified

Phoenix Suns Get Season's Best Win, Top Champion Dallas Mavs In Thriller

When Grant Hill stepped to the foul line with seconds left in the game and the Phoenix Suns up by two points, we thought he'd be money.Hill shoots about 80 percent from the stripe, and the game on the line,​ and has been clutch forever, so.... ​Clunk and clunk.The usually reliable Duke grad ... More >>

Legging Behind

Suns Lose To World Champ Mavs (Who Most Assuredly Won't Be Repeating)

So MVP Dirk Nowitzki is at some weight-loss farm near Dallas as his NBA world champion Mavericks try to pull it together in this strike-abbreviated season. ​Go figure, the desperately trying-to-pull-it-together Phoenix Suns visited Texas last night, and still lost a tough one to the Dirk-less ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Dog It in Nine-Point Road Loss to Dallas Mavericks

suns.com Steve Nash had a double/double against the Mavs. ​Alvin Gentry and Steve Nash complained about it in their post-game remarks. As usual, the coach and the veteran point guard were on the same page. The Suns didn't hustle as a team. Too many Suns played like old ladies.  ... More >>

Tempe Police Allowed Shaquille O’Neal to Play Cop by Giving Him Secret Info on Software Used to Detect Kiddy Porn

Phoenix Suns Drop Last Contest Before All-Star Break to Dallas Mavericks; Fall to .500

nba.com/sunsIt was a good losing effort from the Suns last night.​The Phoenix Suns scrapped and clawed, in the words of Head Coach Alvin Gentry, but just couldn't get the job done against the Dallas Mavericks in a 112-106 loss last night. Dallas came out swinging, taking an early lead in the firs ... More >>

Scary Steve Nash Moment, Plus Monster Trade Over Weekend, as Phoenix Suns Split Two Road Games. Tonight: San Antonio Spurs

nba.com Big-man Marcin Gortat should give the Suns much-needed muscle in the middle.​What a weekend for the Phoenix Suns! Steve Nash lost all feeling in his limbs -- momentarily -- after a collision in the opening minutes of Friday's game with the Mavericks in Dallas. Then, the next ... More >>

Setting Sun: Steve Nash's Quitting the Phoenix Suns to Enter Canadian Politics

Phoenix Suns Should Let Amar'e Stoudemire Go, and Go After a Big-Name Free Agent (Like Dirk Nowitzki)

Let's face it: Amar'e Stoudemire's no maximum-dollar player, like. (say...) Kobe Bryant.​It's over, and nobody wants a reccap of the Suns' 111-103 elimination loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference finals Saturday night. But since we've reported every Suns game this s ... More >>

Amar'e Stoudemire Trade Talk Swirls, as Phoenix Suns Drop Road Game to Dallas Mavericks; Up Next: Atlanta Hawks

Amar'e Stoudemire: 30 points in his possible Suns finale. ​If the Phoenix Suns' game Wednesday night against the Dallas Mavericks was the last game with Amar'e Stoudemire in a Suns uniform, at least the All-Star went out with a bang. Stoudemire scored 30 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the ... More >>

Social Insecurity

An awkward reunion for the Phoenix Suns

In Seventh Loss in Past Nine Games, Phoenix Suns Wimp Out to Charlotte. Next Up: Mavs Thursday Night

The Bobcats' Stephen Jackson lit up the Suns last night.​Finally, it's official: The Suns suck. With that strong start, we wanted to believe. Oh, how we wanted to believe! But after heart-breaking back-to-back losses to Utah Monday night and Charlotte last night, we're giving u ... More >>

Suns Survive Sacramento Kings, Get Destroyed By Los Angeles Lakers In Weekend Action. Up Next: Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday

www.nba.comKobe Bryant continued to make the Phoenix Suns his personal bitches last night. The Phoenix Suns have developed two rather distinct personalities so into the 2009-2010 season. There's the straight ballers that dismantle feeble opponents and occasionally squeak out tough, hard fought win ... More >>

Wilting Phoenix Suns Scorch Kings and Get Scorched by Dallas Over the Weekend

www.nba.com Dirk & Steve: Germany dominates Canada Sunday afternoon.They're not statistically out of it, but the Phoenix Suns have hoisted the white flag. The good news is that that they destroyed the Sacramento Kings Friday night at US Airways Center, 139-111. But the disturbingly& ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Have Only a Slim Chance of Making the Playoffs, after Eating a Dirk Sandwich Against Dallas

Nowitzki and the Mavs aren't the best show in the NBA anymore, but he's still a Suns killer.Shaquille O'Neal scored 21 points against the Dallas Mavericks to go ahead of Elvin Hayes for sixth on the NBA career scoring list (he needs 88 points to best the next guy on the li ... More >>

Math Test: Phoenix Suns Face Must-Win Game Against Dallas Mavericks Tonight

www.nba.com Dirk Nowitzki: Could another choke job be forthcoming? By the time a must-win game for the Phoenix Suns rolls around, we're usually breaking out the sunscreen and decorating the Maypole. This year, desperation's come early. In the race for the Western Conference playoffs, the Su ... More >>

All-Star Schedule

Weekend Wars: Not a Brick in Sight for Shaq as Suns Blow Out Rival Mavs and Beat Lowly Clippers

The big news here's that the really big guy went 12 for 12 from the free-throw line in weekend wins against the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Clippers. Shaquille O'Neal's been saying he's gone back to the basics his father taught him when he was a little boy of 6-9. Well, ... More >>

Western Conference Rival Mavs Return Tonight for Another Shot at Suns

What's the one thing the Phoenix Suns learned during their spirit-crushing Christmas Day defeat by the San Antonio Spurs? That they still have heaps of trouble with the Western Conference's elite. (They also have problems with getting clipped at the buzzer. See Wednesday night's gut-wrenching defe ... More >>

Overtime Flies

Suns, Mavs aren’t the same, but hey, it’s still Suns-Mavs

Shaq Scores Four Points as Beaten-Down Suns get Beaten Up by Dallas

Diesel, where the hell were you? Where's that team you bragged you'd hoist to an NBA  championship in Phoenix? Nowhere to be found in the Suns 112-97 road loss to mighty Dirk Nowitzki (pictured) and his Dallas Mavericks, that's where. Ain't gonna happen with ... More >>

How 'Bout Them Billionaires?: Phoenix Suns at Dallas Mavericks Tonight

Take it from a Dallas native and lifelong Cowboys nut: Beneath its bluster, Big D is an insecure little kid of a town. It compensates with a need for domination that, in sports terms, produces cartoon megalomaniacs like Jerry Jones and Mark Cuban (pictured). Cowboys owner Jones is the World's Riche ... More >>

Dallas in Wonderland

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 31, 2007

Year of the Goat

This dastardly dodo dogs Phil "Goober" Gordon, lambastes Gilbert mayor Steve Berman, and assigns guilt for the Suns' Game 6 loss

Goat of the series? Suns point guard Steve Nash.