Robert Sarver

Janos and J Bar in Tucson to Close Next Month

May 27 no doubt will be a dark day for Tucson food lovers. Two of the city's most acclaimed restaurants -- Janos and J Bar -- will serve their last suppers on May 26 before permanently shuttering their doors at the Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa. In a phone interview with Chow Bella, celeb chef J ... More >>

Shawn Marion's Bravura Performance in Dallas' Win Last Night Goes Into What-Could-Have-Been Category

Last night's amazing performance by onetime Phoenix Suns star Shawn Marion in the Dallas Mavericks' series-clinching win over the Oklahoma City Thunder was bittersweet for local fans.The Matrix, aka Shawn Marion​Marion scored a season-high 26 points in the intensely fought game, and did a ter ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Final Home Game Tomorrow As Scalpers Taking It In Shorts

It was but a year ago that the Phoenix Suns made an improbable and fairly glorious run to the NBA Western Finals, where the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers finally beat them in a hard-fought series.Steve Nash, a Suns' all-time great​Fans know what happened next--among other things, unloved (t ... More >>

Amar'e Stoudemire's Running Wild in Big Apple: Big Test Tonight

We were as frustrated at times as almost everyone else with Amar'e Stoudemire, whose mercurial career with the Phoenix Suns ended after seven seasons last June when he signed a mammoth deal with the New York Knicks. Mr. Stoudemire in previous incarnation​ His lack of defensive prowess, ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 11, 2010

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

A Sun No More: Amar'e Stoudemire Signs With New York Knicks

chi-ball.comAmar'e Stoudemire​ Amar'e Stoudemire is no longer a Phoenix Sun. After weeks of playing the waiting game (while already knowing the answer), Suns fans finally got the official news Monday afternoon. Stoudemire is headed for the Big Apple and the New York Knicks, signing a five-year ... More >>

Steve Kerr Won't Be Back As Phoenix Suns GM Next Season

blog.newsok.com Steve Kerr​Steve Kerr is out as the Phoenix Suns director of basketball operations and general manager. The move, announced this afternoon by the team, shouldn't come as a big surprise to Suns fans. Kerr's contract was up June 30, and it wasn't looking like the former Arizo ... More >>

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 >>

It's Official: Amar'e Stoudemire Is Staying Put

Amar'e ain't going anywhere.​The NBA trade deadline passed mere moments ago and Amar'e Stoudemire is still a member of the Phoenix Suns. Yeah, we know you've heard rumor after endless rumor this week about how the Phoenix Suns superstar was getting a one-way ticket to either Cleveland or Mi ... More >>

Doug Lingner's Tenure at the Housing Authority of Maricopa County Has Been Marked by Nepotism, Cronyism -- and Plenty of Turmoil

Suns Get Blown Out for Second Night in Row, This Time by LeBron James and Cavs. Next UP: Sacramento on Saturday

nba.com LeBron and Shaq dominate Suns.​Are the Suns who we thought they were before the season got going? Certainly hope not, but after two blowout losses in as many nights, we're beginning to wonder. Sure, the 107-90 road loss last night to one of the top teams in the NBA, the C ... More >>

Hot Links: Glendale Light Rail, Mercury Rally, and Mercy Gilbert

​State employees in Arizona will retain domestic-partner benefits for the next twelve months, even though the Legislature's decided to eliminate those benefits in their last budget. The Department of Administration says that cutting the benefits before October 2010 could put the state in violation ... More >>

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 Baske ... More >>

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 loo ... More >>

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 Stat ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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/Plan ... More >>

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 bas ... More >>

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, ... More >>

Amar'e Stoudemire Scores 42 in Phoenix Suns' Second-Night-in-a-Row Rout of Clippers

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 >>

Okay, Stoudemire's Staying With the Phoenix Suns, and so's Shaq -- at Least for the Remainder of the Season

The NBA trade deadline passed at 1 p.m. today with no Phoenix Suns players moved -- not even Amar'e Stoudemire (whose departure seemed all but a done deal last week). Suns brass had been admitting for a month that they were entertaining trade offers for every member of the team e ... More >>

Looking Like the Suns of Old After the Coaching Change, Phoenix Blows Out the Hapless L.A. Clippers

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 >>

Breakneck Mountain: Phoenix Suns to Revive the Seven-and-Shoot Tonight Against Clippers Tuesday and Wednesday

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 >>

Phoenix Suns Owner Robert Sarver -- Your Public Money at Play

Forget the expensive business conferences: The greatest example of government bailout excess may just be Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver, whose banks have taken $140 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds.Yeah, it must be nice to be the CEO of a couple of banks that need massive public ... More >>

Good Riddance: Terry Porter's Officially Fired, but Could it be Shaq Who Now Goes Instead of Amar'e?

Well, it's official. Phoenix Suns head coach Terry Porter was fired today and replaced (on an interim basis) with long-time Phoenix assistant and former Los Angeles Clippers head coach Alvin Gentry (pictured). "I hired Terry because I believed he would be able to provide the balance o ... More >>

Glad You're Sitting Down: Shaq Almost Scores His Age, Proving He Can Still Do It -- Against Milwaukee

It was his first 30-point game since March 9, 2007 when he was with the Miami Heat. In fact, 36-year-old Shaquille O'Neal scored 35 points against the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday night to lead the Suns to a 125-110 victory, the team's largest point total of the year. We'd say t ... More >>

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 8, 2008

Don't let the Suns catch you crying

Steve Kerr's been beating the odds his whole life

Mercury Rising

The best baller in Phoenix doesn't play for the Suns. Can Diana Taurasi take the Mercury all the way?

Stop Your Railing!

Sure, light-rail construction is painful, but it will be worth it in the long haul

Amaré's Burden

The Phoenix Suns superstar has more to worry about than his ailing knees

Up in Smoke

The plumed one decries discrimination against smokers and Jenna Jameson, and reports on plundering in Phoenix's, um, Chinatown

Please, It's About Time!

It's great that Colangelo's been dumped. Now real players are taking over.