Subject: Phoenix Suns

• Phoenix Suns Continue Skid, Losing to D. Wade and the Miami Heat, 135-129

  allposters.com Those were the days, my friend. Shaq and D. Wade after their 2006 NBA titleTwo of Shaquille O'Neal's old teams on the road in two nights. Two losses. Tuesday night, it was to the Orlando Magic, and Wednesday it was to Dwayne Wade, Shaq's brother in arms in the 2006 NBA championship, and the Miami Heat. It wasn't Shaq's fault that the Phoenix Suns lost to the Heat by 6 points, dropping even deeper into ninth place in the Western Conference playoff race. He had 22

  March 5, 2009

• Player Hater: Phoenix Suns Need to Channel Shaq's Aggro to Win on the Road This Weekend

  www.nba.com As the saying goes, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." Well, considering the current tongue-lashing dished out by Shaquille O'Neal at Orlando Magic head coach Stan Van Gundy, the hate is all-encompassing for the Suns' big man. The triggering episode occurred Tuesday night in Orlando during Phoenix's 111-99 loss. During the game, Magic center Dwight Howard elbowed Shaq in the chest. The Suns center flopped worse than his 1998 album Respect. Van Gundy, who coached O'Neal for a

  March 6, 2009

• Should the Phoenix Suns Have Gotten Rid of Amar'e Stoudemire When They Had the Chance?

  The Phoenix Suns are cringe-worthy these days, after losing the first two games on a four-game road trip at a time when they desperately need to win to squeak into the Western Conference playoffs. (We're praying for a miracle tonight against the Tracy McGrady-less Rockets in Houston, before they meet the Manu Ginobli-less San Antonio Spurs Sunday afternoon.) So the bad news about Amar'e Stoudemire's eye was just another reason to cringe. Though it looked painfully evident&nbs

  March 6, 2009

• March 6 In Blogs: Phoenix Suns, Emo, Luke's of Chicago and More

  We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever:Should the Phoenix Suns Have Gotten Rid of Amar'e Stoudemire When They Had the Chance? Gilbert Man Frustrated He Can't Get Cops to Believe He Killed Roommate Feathered Bastard:Arizona's Marijuana-Worshipping Church of Cognizance Seeks a Legal, Spiritual High Up on th

  March 6, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Go 0-4 on Road Trip, Losing in Final Minutes to Hated Spurs on Sunday

  nba.com Tony Parker owns the Suns this season.There's only bad news about the fading Phoenix Suns, whose chances of making the Western Conference playoffs get slimmer by the game. The sad thing is, the Suns could've won every one of the past four road games in Orlando, Miami, Houston, and San Antonio. They were in each game until the home team overpowered them in the fourth quarter. Which's what good teams do. They find a way to win. The Suns best showing came against the

  March 9, 2009

• 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 Suns sit in ninth place in an eight-team sprint following their disastrous 0-4 road swing through Orlando, Miami, Houston, and San Antonio. The team in eighth, the Dallas Mavericks, leads the Suns by fo

  March 10, 2009

• 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 list, Moses Malone). Matt Barnes also had 21 points, and Steve Nash had 23 and 13 assists. All the Suns' starters and Leandro Barbosa, off the bench, were in double-figures. Now you've gotten

  March 11, 2009

• Supermen of La Mancha: Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James, Mo Williams Visit Phoenix Suns Tonight

  www.nba.com Mo Williams: Finally, a worthy sidekick for LeBron. Following the Phoenix Suns' figurative demise in their do-or-die game versus the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night, the dudes in orange have about as much chance of making the playoffs as did Don Quixote of slaying a windmill. But that doesn't mean the end of championship-caliber NBA hoops at US Airways Center quite yet, as the Cleveland Cavaliers and their superman of La Mancha, LeBron James, visit the PHX tonight. You'd b

  March 12, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Can Possibly Enjoy Some Fun Times for a Change in Cupcake City This Weekend

  www.nba.comNenad Krstic of the Oklahoma City Thunder What do the Phoenix Suns have left to play for, following their epic, disheartening, and potentially playoff killing losing streak? If the Suns catch fire and the Mavs majorly choke, perhaps a postseason berth, a not-impossible-but-improbable scenario. Or what about pride? Naw, this isn't college ball, so all that hokey stuff about pride doesn't apply. So how about this? Specifically, some ass-kicking, scoreboard-lighting fun like we saw w

  March 13, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Break Six-Game Losing Streak, With (You Guessed it) Wins Over Two Teams With Losing Records

  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 running-and-gunning 154-130 against the 23-43 Golden State Warriors in Oakland on Sunday night. In the six games before that, they also did what they do best -- lose to good teams. But, on Sunda

  March 16, 2009

• Wild-Card Studs: Phoenix Suns Seek Revenge Against Young-Gun Philadelphia 76ers Tonight

  search.espn.go.com Sixers rookie Marreese Speights spanked the Suns in Philly. When last we met the Philadelphia 76ers, back in Philly on February 9, the Sixers' young and relatively rested legs made quick work of the punchy Phoenix Suns, who were coming off a tough win the previous night in Detroit and looked like they could've used some more quality sack time. As noted then, this year's Suns have made a specialty of transforming lumps of NBA coal into diamonds, and the mediocre 76ers

  March 18, 2009

• Leandro Barbosa Injured in Phoenix Suns' Impressive Win Over Philadelphia 76ers

  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 left knee. It was sickening even to watch, but a preliminary examination determined that there was no joint or ligament damage. What this means about the Brazilian Blur's availablity for the rest of the

  March 19, 2009

• Suns Host Antawn Jamison and Washington Wizards on Saturday

  www.nba.comAntawn Jamison The Dallas Mavericks haven't exactly placed a foot on the Phoenix Suns' throat and stood upright with all of their weight during the battle for the eighth and final playoff spot. See a 119-110 loss to the Golden State Warriors on March 13, a team that the Suns stomped 154-130 on March 15. So instead of obsessing for hours watching online game casts of Mavericks games or racking your brain with complicated formulas on playoff positioning (by the way, it's really just

  March 20, 2009

• Leandro Barbosa Could Miss the Rest of the Regular Season, and Without Him, it May be Impossible for the Phoenix Suns to Make the Playoffs

  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.The answer is probably not. The Suns, 3 1/2 games behind the Dallas Mavericks for the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot, already faced long odds. But to lose a guy who  averaged 19

  March 20, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Finally Beat a Good Team Again in a Nail-biter Monday Night

  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 streak, 0-6, that began just after that last victory over a good team, the Western Conference-leading Los Angeles Lakers. But let's not be a buzz-kill. Monday night's game was entertaining from beginnin

  March 24, 2009

• Keep the Good Times Rolling: Suns Need to Beat Jazz Tonight at US Airways Center

  www.nba.comUtah's Mehmet Okur Hey, Suns fans. Steve Nash and company have you exactly where they want you after its epic 118-115 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night. Only three games behind the Dallas Mavericks, all hopeful and stuff, and ready to Sharpie-in that eighth and final playoff position in the West. But beware. Need we remind you that this season, Phoenix usually falters following an unexpected win against a solid squad. (Remember this month's six-game losing streak afte

  March 25, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Gut Out Another Big Win Against a Good Team Wednesday Night to Go 6 in a Row. Next Up: the Trail Blazers Tonight

  www.suns.com "Lightening" Lou Amundson gives Phoenix the edge.Deeee-Fence! We never thought we'd be saying this, but the Phoenix Suns won the last two games against tough Western Conference foes with solid D, and now find themselves on a 6-game winning streak. Of course, this offsets the 6-game losing streak the team endured immediately preceding, but let's not talk about that now. Let's talk about the 10 steals the Suns finagled in their 118-114 victory over the Utah

  March 26, 2009

• Suns Get Blazed in Portland Thursday Night. Up Next: Utah Saturday and Sacramento Sunday.

  When you're facing a solid opponent that's the second youngest squad in the league and hasn't played in four days, it's going to be tough to win, especially when you've had to grind out two tough victories in three days while fighting for your playoff lives. That's the best way to sum up the Phoenix Suns' experience in Portland last night, a not-even-close 129-109 victory for the Trail Blazers. Phoenix had to play yet another toughie less than 24 hours after a tough home win over the Utah Jazz

  March 27, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Still (Barely) Alive in the Playoff Race After 114-109 Win Over Tough Houston Rockets

  www.nba.com It was a battle of the behemoths at US Airways Center.The most lopsided statistic in the Phoenix Suns' 5-point victory over the powerhouse Houston Rockets Wednesday night was fast-break points. The Suns had 18 and the Rockets had 4. It was run-and-gun basketball as only the Suns can do it (when their heads are in the game). But the Suns also beat one of the best rebounding teams in basketball -- which features 7-foot-6 Yao Ming -- on the boards.

  April 2, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Try to Save Face This Weekend Against Sacramento and Dallas

  www.nba.comSuns will try to lockdown Jason Terry and postpone the Mavs' playoff party. Following the Phoenix Suns' 114-109 defeat of the Houston Rockets on Wednesday -- coupled with the Dallas Mavericks' 98-96 victory over the Miami Heat -- Planet Orange remains 4 games back from the eighth-and-final postseason spot, with 7 to go. Can we say season over for the Suns? Not officially, but basically, yes. Unless the Mavs (whose magic number is four) start playing like, well, the Suns, Phoenix can

  April 3, 2009

• 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 bad news is that they got their asses handed to them by the Mavericks Sunday afternoon in Dallas, thus blowing a chance to come within 2 games of the Mavs for the eighth and final playo

  April 6, 2009

• Blame D'Antoni: Sinking Phoenix Suns Take on New Orleans Hornets Tonight

  www.nba.com Shaquille O'Neal has five games left as a Sun. Bank on it. The New York Knicks were eliminated from the playoffs last Saturday, less than 24 hours before the Phoenix Suns were in every way but mathematically terminated by the Dallas Mavericks. Anyone but a Mike D'Antoni/Planet Orange hardcore might see humor in that ironic turn. Probably not Mike D'Antoni himself. He's a self-serious dude, and he doesn't like to lose, which is about the nicest thing we can say about him

  April 8, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Win Impressively Over New Orleans, but Get Knocked Out of the Playoffs

  The Phoenix Suns were impressive against a good team Wednesday night, beating the New Orleans Hornets 105-100 on sterling play by their team leaders. www.nba.com Why's GM Steve Kerr smiling? The Suns didn't make the playoffs for the first time in the Nash era.But it doesn't matter. The Dallas Mavericks demolished the Utah Jazz 130-101 later in the evening and knocked Phoenix out of the playoffs. Remember, going into Wednesday night's games, the Suns had to win all five of their

  April 9, 2009

• Hot Links: Sexy Temples, Tomb Pimping, and Vatican Gone Wild

  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 45th victory this season. Shaquille O'Neal led the Suns with 19 points, and Steve Nash and Jason Richardson both scored 18 points...A Chandler woman, Brenda Sue Carroll-Nesper, was sentenced to five

  April 14, 2009

• Phoenix Suns Finish Season With Second-Best Record of Any Team Not Making the Playoffs in NBA History

  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 State Warriors in the last game of the season for both teams, 117-113. Phoenix wound up two games out of the Western Conference playoffs, behind the Utah Jazz. It was surely the last time this versio

  April 16, 2009

• End Game: Phoenix Suns Face an Offseason of Discontent

  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-crossed campaign for Your Phoenix Suns mercifully comes to an end sometime after 9:30 tonight when the clock runs out on their 82nd game, versus the Golden State Warriors, and a season that began wit

  April 15, 2009

• Hot Links: Inmate Dies, Nash Seeks Raise, and APS Sprays

  A female inmate at Perryville state prison died early Wednesday after being left outside in a holding cell for four hours in temperatures above 100 degrees. The inmate, Marcia Powell, 48, was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution...Phoenix police have released the names of burglary suspects who caused a major crash on Interstate 10 yesterday morning, after going the wrong way on the freeway. The driver is Andrew Padilla, 18, and his passenger was Brittany Rose Doheny, 21. Both r

  May 21, 2009

• Hot Links: MCC Funds, TGen Grants, and Hitler Underpants

  People marched in central Phoenix yesterday to protest the California Supreme Court's Decision to uphold the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The rally, organized by grassroots organization Marriage Equality USA, drew around 200 people...An investigative report by the Arizona Office of the Auditor General alleges that Maricopa County Community Colleges misused public funds by loaning more than $3 million to 26 non-profit employees through state payrolls. A

  May 27, 2009

• Hot Links: San Tan Valley, Abortion Bills, and Frito-Lays

  Residents in an unincorporated community near Queen Creek have voted to name the area San Tan Valley. About 2,000 people voted, choosing the name over another consideration, Bella Vista...Residents of northeast Mesa held a meeting Tuesday night with Councilwoman Dina Higgins to discuss instituting a noise-abatement program from nearby Sky Harbor airport. Residents in the area complain of getting waken at all hours by the sounds of incoming planes...A bill that imposes new restrictions on a

  June 24, 2009

• Hot Links: Shaq Packs, Doc Prescribes, and Cows Burp

  ASU basketball player James Harden worked out for the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday. Harden, the PAC-10 Player of the Year, is expected to be among the top five picks in tonight's NBA draft...the Phoenix Suns traded Shaquille O'Neal to the Cleveland Cavaliers the day before the draft. In exchange for Shaq, the Suns will get Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic, the 46th pick in the draft, and $500,000...Fire crews in Prescott battled a blaze allegedly caused by a truck driver accidentally p

  June 25, 2009

• The Big Cactus Becomes the Big Abandoned Steel Mill. Good for Cleveland, but It Leaves Us with Zilch

  www.nba.com O'Neal and King James reunited on the same team, this time for what the Cavs hope is a championship season.So what's Shaq gonna be called now that he's no longer the Big Cactus? Maybe the Big Abandoned Steel Mill or the Big Mistake By the Lake. Actually, O'Neal's trade looks good -- for LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers! But what WTF did the Phoenix Suns get out of this? We'll tell you what: The deal saves owner Robert Sarver at least $10 million. What did Phoen

  June 25, 2009

• Steve Nash Agrees to Rich Contract Extension, but Why Do the Phoenix Suns Want to Keep the Aging Superstar at All Costs?

  Beats us why Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver would bend over frontwards to keep a point guard who's too old and slow to keep up defensively with practically any other starter at his position in the nba.com No way the two-time league MVP should be the Suns' top priority. National Basketball Association.   Come on, the Suns are in a rebuilding mode. From the looks of things so far, we predict they'll be only slightly more competitive next season than the Arizona Diamondbacks ha

  July 20, 2009

• Suns Dancers Revealed In Glitzy Reality Program

  Adriane Goetz​We've been covering the Phoenix Suns dance team auditions since they started earlier this month (slideshow here). So why quit now?The Suns -- who also operate a basketball team tacitly connected with their very popular dance squad -- announced the results of their fan-selected squad in a show called Making of the Suns Dancers which aired on KUTP My45 last night. You can see the video here. The team pulled out all the stops this year, even getting a Pussycat Doll to to choreograph

  August 26, 2009

• Hot Links: Stoudemire, Medical Bargains, and Conspiracies

  ​While delivering a lecture about education to students at Martin Luther King Jr. elementary school, Phoenix Suns star Amar'e Stoudemire indicated he may only be in Phoenix one more year. Stoudemire, who underwent surgery on his retina in July, could opt-out of his final contract year and become a free agent...A two year-old boy was found safe in Surprise just hours after his father took him from his mother at knife point. Surprise Police Sergeant Mark Ortega described the case as a "domestic

  August 26, 2009

• Hard Times For The Suns; New Deal Turns Steve Nash And Company Into Walking Billboards

  ​The Phoenix Suns are in the process of reducing their players to NASCAR drivers with a new deal that allows corporate sponsorship of their practice uniforms and practice court.The team announced today that they have struck an agreement with The Annexus Group, a Phoenix-based annuity design firm, that puts the company's logo on the right shoulder of the team's practice jerseys.Oh, and remember the team's practice court? Well that's now "The Annexus Practice Court."We know the economy sucks, bu

  September 16, 2009

• Mirror Ball

  October 1, 2009

• Hot Links: BB Guns, Robin Lopez's Foot, and a Miracle Baby

  ​Two juveniles were arrested by Phoenix police for allegedly shooting at traffic signs and speed enforcement cameras with BB guns. DPS officers stopped a black Volvo after reports of shots fired on eastbound Interstate 10 and took a male and a female into custody. There were reportedly five juveniles in the vehicle...Phoenix Suns center Robin Lopez must undergo surgery on a broken left foot, and is expected to miss six to eight weeks of basketball while he recovers. Lopez suffered the

  October 6, 2009

• Forget the Alamo: Arizona Cardinals Must Whup Hubris and the Houston Texans to Salvage Their Season

  If Beanie can hold on to the ball, expect a breakout day for the rookie RB against the Texans.​ Three years ago, Suns fans considered Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers their personal bitches. Two years ago, D-Backers openly lampooned the hapless, pre-Joe Torre L.A. Dodgers. Last year, Arizona Cardinals fans noisily pooh-poohed the antics of the San Francisco 49ers and the team's head coach, Mike Singletary, who dropped his drawers in an ill-advised (though not entirely unsuccessful) atte

  October 9, 2009

• Eye Ball

  October 15, 2009

• R U ORNG? Suns Fest

  October 22, 2009

• Foul Play: Remembering Horry/Nash as Fun 'n' Gun Phoenix Suns Open New Season in L.A.

  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 going to be a total dick." True to his nature, though, Horry decked Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash during the waning seconds of that night's Western Conference semifinal game four, almost certainl

  October 28, 2009

• Steve Nash Helps Suns Squeak Out 109-107 Win Over the Los Angeles Clippers in Season Opener

  Steve Nash still has it, as the Suns player helped lift his team to victory over the L.A. Clippers.​Welcome back, Steve Nash.One of the countless questions hanging over the Phoenix Suns 2009-2010 season was whether or not the team's 35-year-old captain still had any hustle left despite his advancing age. Apparently he does, since the dude pretty much single-handedly carried the Suns to victory on Wednesday night in its season-opener against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Staples Center. Nas

  October 29, 2009

• Suns Open 2009-10 Home Season This Weekend Against Two Cuppy Cakes

  www.nba.com Good start, Nash and Co. You should keep it up.​ Expect the Phoenix Suns' fast start to the 2009-10 season to continue this weekend, when they open their home season at US Airways Center against two teams that are seriously in flux. First off is Friday's tussle against the Golden State Warriors. If you recall, last season was a disaster for the Don Nelson-led squad. This season, despite some super young talent in Stephen Curry and Anthony Randolph, the place is a cancer,

  October 30, 2009

• Suns Trump Golden State, Minnesota Over the Weekend

  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 Western Conference pretenders at U.S Airways Center. Frye was fantastic in both games. He grabbed 22 points during Friday night's home opener (including sinking six of seven three-point shots from do

  November 2, 2009

• Road Test: Brutal NBA Swing Opens With 3-0 Suns at 3-0 Heat

  www.nba.com/heat Miami's Dwyane Wade is the newest member of the NBA's 10,000-point club.​ 3-0 to start the season? Even against poor-to-middling competition (L.A. Clippers, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves), we'll take it, though we're not deluding ourselves. The other athletic shoe's about to drop on the Phoenix Suns, thanks to the NBA's Special Department of Torture (a.k.a. the schedulers). Tonight, Phoenix starts one of those harrowing road swings the NBA's infamous fo

  November 3, 2009

• Nash Goes Off for 30, and the Suns Open a Grueling Road Trip with a Win over the Heat

  www.nba.com/suns Steve Nash: 35 is the new 25.​One of the big questions about the Phoenix Suns heading into this season was: Did 35-year-old Steve Nash have enough left in the tank to carry the Suns like the Nash of old? On Tuesday night, the former league MVP certainly had plenty in the tank as he sparked a crazy second-half rally in the Suns' 104-96 win over the Miami Heat in Miami. Nash was positively Nash-ian on Tuesday: He penetrated, he dashed, he dished, he launched three-pointe

  November 4, 2009

• Hot Links: Surprise Suicide, Yuma's Race, and "A" Mountain

  ​A traffic stop in Surprise ended in suicide Tuesday when the driver slit his throat. According to police, George Lajeunesse, 43, was stopped because he was wanted for questioning in connection with a domestic violence call. Lajeunesse reportedly wielded a large knife at the traffic stop, and slit his throat after being Tasered by police...The mayor of Yuma lost his re-election bid Tuesday. Initial voter results show that challenger Al Krieger is winning the mayoral race over incumbent Larry N

  November 4, 2009

• The Streak's Over: Even Ex-Sun Matt Barnes Looked Like an All-Star in Phoenix's Blowout Road Loss to Magic

  NBA.com Dwight Howard doing his Superman impression at the All-Star Game.It was only a matter of time. Yeah, the Phoenix Suns were 4-0 going into last night's game with Superman and the Orlando Magic -- the man of steel being everybody's favorite basketball star nowadays, Dwight Howard. And Howard & Co. didn't disappoint their legion of fans, who believe their team has the deepest roster in the NBA this year and will win it all, though they certainly bummed us out. See, we

  November 5, 2009

• One-Loss Suns Try to Keep it That Way With Games in Boston and D.C. Lotsa Luck!

  Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen are next on the Suns' docket. ​ After getting peppered on Wednesday night by the Orlando Magic, the 4-1 Phoenix Suns continue their beast-of-an-East-Coast swing with one super toughie and one winnable one. (If, that is, they don't go all 2008-09 Suns.) First up is tonight's clash with the 6-0 Boston Celtics. This will be the Suns' first look in '09 at the team that has retained much of its nucleus from the 2007-08 NBA Championship-winning squad.

  November 6, 2009

• 10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Top Secret Parties, Hanny's Anniversary, Black Fag, and More

  Man-candy mixmaster Jared Alan will be holding court tonight at Sanctum.​Officially, the re-launch for Jared Alan's notorious fauxShow Night at its new home isn't taking place until next Friday. Unofficially, however, the hunky hipster DJ is kicking things off a whole week early with an under-the-radar members-only grand opening affair later tonight at Sanctum. It's sure to be quite the fashionable fete, drawing in a select crowd of beautiful types to the gothy Melrose District dance denS

  November 6, 2009