Finally, the Suns got rid of tentative Boris Diaw -- then they threw in defensive-minded Raja Bell for good mearure. At least, these were the name players the team jettisoned to acquire talented two-guard Jason Richardson (pictured after a dunk) from the Charlotte Bobcats. The 6 ... More >>
Never trust a guy who's got a swastika tattooed on his forehead: Phoenix cops arrest four suspected white supremacists after two hate crime attacks. Steve Nash says he's "emotionally drained" following the Suns' trade of Raja Bell and Boris Diaw for Jason Richardson of the Charlotte Bobcats. ... More >>
Down three players, the Phoenix Suns played toe to toe with the Los Angeles Lakers for four quarters before losing 115-110 at Staples Center. With the usual assortment of show-biz types in attendance Wednesday night, the Suns, with just eight players available, looked much better ... More >>
Phoenix Suns fans: Here's a quick-and-dirty introduction to the team's newest member, Jason Richardson, who was acquired in Wednesday's five-player trade that sent Raja Bell and Boris Diaw to the Charlotte Bobcats.
So, when Mike D'Antoni leads his New York Knicks out of the tunnel and onto the hardwood at the Purple Palace, will you boo him or will you cheer him? What's the etiquette for a man who abandoned a listing ship? Sure, following the Suns' first-round playoff ouster by the San Antonio Spurs ... More >>
Here's an idea: play Shaquille O'Neal every third game. The other idea would be to play him only against Milwaukee (he scored 27 and 35 points in two games against the Bucks this season), but that wouldn't be cost-effective for a guy making $20 million a year. After missing two games because of a f ... More >>
The Suns have looked good for two games in a row! Unfortunately, they lost the first of these in a heartbreaker against an emerging Portland team. On Saturday night, Phoenix actually won the turnover war (16 to 21) against a good Denver Nuggets team, and therefore the game. Keeping turnov ... More >>
The Boston Celtics bought themselves an NBA Championship in 2007-08. The Los Angeles Lakers nearly stole one by snookering away the rights to All-Star forward Pau Gasol from the Memphis Grizzlies last February 1 for the NBA equivalent of nothing. Oh, Memphis Coach Marc Iavaroni, a former Suns ass ... More >>
The Phoenix Suns played all but nine minutes of Monday night's game against the Oklahoma City Thunder without Steve Nash, and the team seemed to pick up steam after its floor leader went to the locker room with back spasms. Even if it was against the team with the worst record in the NBA, th ... More >>
Another day, another accused athlete. The last few days have seen local sports celebs Charles Barkley, Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald, and Indy 500 driver Danica Patrick in the news for various incidents. This week it's Phoenix Suns player Jason Richardson, who -- like Barkley -- was buste ... More >>
Ths Suns lost 113-110 at the buzzer to the Indiana Pacers, the second-worst team in the Eastern Conference. But who's fault was it? When Phoenix lost by a point on Christmas Day to the hated San Antonio Spurs, one of the best teams in the Western Conference, it was newly acquired guard&nb ... More >>
If there's one team that's benefited the most this season from a trade, it's the Denver Nuggets. On November 3, 2008, nine-time NBA All-Star guard Allen Iverson was dealt to the Detroit Pistons for guard Chauncey Billups (pictured), forward Antonio McDyess, and center Cheikh Samb. (McDyess never ... More >>
Yeah, it was a terrible call. In the last seconds of regulation against Denver with the score tied 103-103, Grant Hill drove toward the basket and was tripped by Nuggets forward Dahntay Jones. Hill hit the hardwood. Tripped, and no call by head referee Dick Bavetta (pictured, the ref who famously r ... More >>
Remember that February 9 beat-down win over the formidable Dallas Mavericks at US Airways Center? It was easy to believe that the Phoenix Suns had turned it all around after they toppled a top Western Conference opponent by 28 points, to hope (Barack Obama's favorite w ... More >>
Charlotte's Boris Diaw in his strange new role: starter. If Charlotte were Philly, the Phoenix Suns would be wise to beware of flying alkaline batteries and half-filled beer cups when they take the court against the Bobcats at Time Warner Cable Arena at 5 p.m. tonight. But North Carolina's s ... More >>
You know what it means that the Suns blew out the Sacramento Kings 129-81 at US Airways Center Monday night? Nothing. The Kings are 11-39, officially the third-worst team in the NBA at 11-39 (the L.A. Clippers and the Washington Wizards are tied for worst at 10-38). Running them out of the gym ... More >>
It's past time for the Suns to panic. But they can't muster up enough energy to even care whether another sub-.500 team blows them out. Pride? Apparently they have none. Is it that they hate Coach Terry Porter, he of the long practices, clich'ed press conferences, ... More >>
Amar'e Stoudemire's practically got his bags packed. And the rest of the Phoenix Suns -- save for vererans Shaquille O'Neal, Steve Nash, and Grant Hill -- had seemingly put up the white flag. Then... The Suns started looking like a playoff team again in the past two games against the ... More >>
We knew to expect the worst when Suns broadcasters harped from the beginning of the game that the team got into Philadelphia at past 2 a.m. Monday after their victory over the Pistons in Detroit Sunday night You know, the old back-to-back road games bugaboo. ... More >>
This just in from Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver and general manager Steve Kerr: Oops. Our bad. Terry Porter, we hardly knew ye. Here's a sack full of cash to salve your wounds. Amar'e -- ha ha. Those trade rumors? We were just kidding. Ya know we love ya, ya big lug. The rest of you guys, run li ... More >>
It was a game in which Goran Dragic slam-dunked. Goran who? You know, the highly touted backup point guard whom fired Suns Coach Terry Porter used to ream a new one from the sidelines everytime he made a blunder. The Slovenian rookie (pictured) played with reckless ab ... More >>
The once-again run-and-gun Phoenix Suns looked great again Wednesday night, scoring 140 points or more for the second game in a row against the dog-ass Los Angeles Clippers. This time, the score was 142-119, and supposedly on-the-trading-block Amar'e Stoudemire scored 42 points of that and ... More >>
www.nba.com Boris Diaw ain't all that. Last Thursday, in one blink of Amar'e Stoudemire's bum eye, the Phoenix Suns' playoff chances took a sucker punch to the gut. Most people's first thought: "Oh. Crap." Most people's second thought: "Oh. Crap. We traded away Boris Diaw." Our second thoug ... More >>
There were hugs all around, before Tuesday night's game got started and after the final buzzer. Raja Bell and Boris Diaw seemed happy to be back home in Phoenix, even if they are now starters for head coach Larry Brown's Charlotte Bobcats. So much so that they were the high scorers in ... More >>
www.daylife.com Ex-Warriors Jason Richardson and Matt Barnes light up their old coach.Over the weekend, the Phoenix Suns did what they do best -- beat bad teams. The score was 106-95 against the 18-48 Oklahoma City Thunder at US Airways Center on Saturday night and a runn ... More >>
www.nba.comLeandro Barbosa takes a sickening spill. Just when you thought the Phoenix Suns' luck was improving, another player gets injured. This time it happened at the end of the first quarter of the Suns' game against the Philadelphia 76ers when Leandro Barbosa went down with a hyper-extended lef ... More >>
Can the Phoenix Suns make the playoffs without shooting guard (and sometimes point guard) Leandro Barbosa, who went down with a hyper-extended left knee the other night against the Philadelphia 76ers and is now expected to be out for as many as 10 games? www.nba.com Barbosa joins Stoudemire. ... More >>
www.nba.com Grant Hill has another monster game.It was the first time since March 1 that the Suns have beaten a good team. And the Phoenix Suns' 118-115 win over the Denver Nuggets gives them their longest winning streak of the year, 5-0. Unfortunately, they've had a longer losing str ... More >>
www.nba.com Grant Hill has another monster game.It was the first time since March 1 that the Suns have beaten a good team. And the Phoenix Suns' 118-115 win over the Denver Nuggets gives them their longest winning streak of the year, 5-0. Unfortunately, they've had a longer losing str ... More >>
www.nba.com Grant Hill has another monster game.It was the first time since March 1 that the Suns have beaten a good team. And the Phoenix Suns' 118-115 win over the Denver Nuggets gives them their longest winning streak of the year, 5-0. Unfortunately, they've had a longer losing str ... More >>
Phoenix police are keeping a close eye on the Phoenix Goddess Temple after receiving complaints from neighbors that the temple is really a brothel. The temple offers "cuddle parties" and a sex ed program on Fridays...The Phoenix Suns beat the Memphis Grizzlies 119-110 Monday night, marking their ... More >>
www.nba.com For the first time in his career, Grant Hill played in all 82 regular-season games. He had 27 points against Golden State last night.The Suns set in the West on Wednesday evening. And they dropped below the horizion with a purple and orange glow, beating the Golden Stat ... More >>
www.nba.com Many will go. Grant Hill will return. We hope. A mere week into the new season, the Arizona Diamondbacks' top pitcher is on the disabled list with a sore wing and the D-Backs couldn't hit a slow-pitch grapefruit with a two-by-four. You think they've got problems? This year's star ... More >>
Robert Horry and Steve Nash scuffle after Horry's infamous decking of Nash on May 14, 2007. The play sent the Suns into a tailspin they're still trying to recover from. Suppose for a sec that Robert Horry, on the morning of May 14, 2007, had looked in the mirror and said, "Today, I'm not go ... More >>
Channing Frye was quite deadly from the three-point line in back-to-back Suns victories over the weekend.Channing Frye justified his two-year, $3.8 million contract (and then some) this past weekend. The 6-foot-11 center was a basket-making dynamo who helped the Phoenix Suns thump a pair of hapless ... More >>
www.nba.comJason Richardson scored big against the Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards this weekend.Going into their current five-game jaunt up and down the East Coast, the Phoenix Suns were expected to be butchered by such powerhouse teams as 2008 NBA champs Boston in a basketball bloodbath.&n ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsJason Richardson: Another high-scoring effort.Even the most fanatical of Suns worshippers couldn't have imagined such an outcome. A weeklong five-game road trip to the East Coast, including bouts against powerhouses Boston and Orlando, wrapping up with four wins for the Suns? Beli ... More >>
www.nba.comKobe Bryant and the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers proved why they're the defending NBA champions in last night's defeat of the Phoenix Suns.Welcome back to reality, Phoenix Suns fans. After your team amassed a surprising 8-1 record over the past two weeks (including spectacular wins ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsAmar'e Stoudemire: No specs for free-throw attempts.Against the Lakers, Amar'e Stoudemire looked like crap, scoring a measly eight points. On Sunday night against Toronto, the star atoned for his worthlessness in L.A. by playing one of his all-around best games of the season. Stou ... More >>
Amar'e Stoudemire and Steve Nash combined for 41 points on Sunday as the Phoenix Suns trashed the Detroit Pistons 117-91.The Phoenix Suns have seen their fair share of memorable duos over the past four decades of playing basketball in the Valley, including capable combos such as Alvan Adams and Gar ... More >>
Jason Richardson posted back-to-back 22 point performances this weekend against the Timberwolves and Raptors.Steve Nash left a rather interesting tweet on his Twitter account over the weekend, and it was directed towards pal and Toronto Raptors star Chris Bosh.It simply stated, "see u above the r ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsJason Richardson: 25 points in a losing effortIt seems as if the Phoenix Suns are playing only road games this year. Of course, they've suited up at US Airways Center a few times, but, indeed, they've been away from home a lot thus far: a league-high 15 games out of the first 22 t ... More >>
www.nba.com/blazersJerryd Bayless: The Phoenix native scored 29 against the Suns.Ouch. This one stings: The Portland Trail Blazers totally dominated the fourth quarter and overcame a 15-point deficit to beat the Phoenix Suns 105-102 Thursday night in Portland. Steve Nash had an opportunity to bri ... More >>
The University of Arizona plans to shut down its nuclear reactor by mid-2010. The license for the 51-year-old reactor, used for research, expires next year, and Director John Williams says it isn't used enough to warrant a vigorous re-licensing process with the Nuclear Reg ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsJared Dudley: Nine points of the bench.Well, that was close (even though it shouldn't have been). Late in the second quarter on Tuesday night, the Phoenix Suns led the Sacramento Kings by 20 points and looked as if they were going to wrap this one up early in the third quarter. Un ... More >>
wikipedia commons Coach Alvin Gentry was livid over his team's play against Milwaukee.When haven't the Phoenix Suns blown a double-digit advantage in a game this season? Damned if we can remember.Often they've blown a big lead and lost, as they did Friday night at US Airways Center. After ... More >>
nba.com Robin Lopez had the game of his short NBA career in the loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.We wouldn't want to be Suns Coach Alvin Gentry. Amar'e Stoudemire trade talk has bubbled up again. The wheels have come off his team. And he's gotta do something to fix it. The Sun ... More >>
Goran Dragic's third-quarter performance helped the Suns dispatch the New Jersey Nets last night.As woeful as the Phoenix Suns' fortunes have been over the past few weeks -- losing four straight games, staging repeated scoring collapses, etc. -- the subpar squad has at least one saving grace. At ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsGrant Hill: 13 first-half points on Saturday night.Somehow, some way the Phoenix Suns avoided a total disaster this weekend at US Airways Center. Instead, their two-game series was just a partial disaster. Sure, the team beat the Golden State Warriors, barely, on Saturday night, b ... More >>
www.nba.com/sunsJason Richardson (left) and Amar'e Stoudemire combined for 48 points on Tuesday. Amar'e Stoudemire won't be wearing a Phoenix Suns uniform for very much longer, if the current maelstrom of trade rumors prove to be true. With a little over 24 hours to go until the NBA trading de ... More >>
