San Antonio Spurs

Phoenix Suns Hang Tough Against San Antonio Spurs Until Crunch Time, Lose

Good ballgame to watch last night down at the US Airways Center, but San Antonio's veteran stars proved too much in the end, as the Spurs pulled away late from the Phoenix Suns to win 107-100. ​The Suns dropped to 25-25 with the loss, which came after they were leading (shades of the re ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Close Out Season With 106-103 Win Over San Antonio Spurs, Can Now Go Home And Wonder Where Team Went Wrong

nba.com/sunsFans went home with a consolation victory over the hated Spurs.​The Phoenix Suns beat the San Antonio Spurs to close out their season on Fan Appreciation Night yesterday, 106-103, but in true 2010 Suns fashion almost blew the game. Los Suns unleashed a 43-27 shellacking on the San ... 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 >>

Phoenix Suns' Friday Night Win Against Los Angeles Clippers An April Fool's Joke As San Antonio Spurs Snuff Out Suns' Playoff Chances

nba.com/sunsMen against boys.​The Phoenix Suns kept their fading playoff hopes alive against the Los Angeles Clippers Friday night before having them snuffed out for good by the San Antonio Spurs Sunday morning. Friday's 111-98 win against the Clippers was almost a cruel April Fool's Day pran ... 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 Nipped By Hated San Antonio Spurs In Playoff-Like Battle

It's so early in the season for us to call the Phoenix Suns 112-110 loss last night to their arch-rival San Antonio Spurs last night a game with "playoff-like intensity," but it was.​Both teams fought as if the game really meant something, not just one of 82 regular season games before the real se ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Sweep Men in Black Over Weekend. Looks Like They'll Face Fearsome Los Angeles Lakers in Western Conference Finals

nba.com Steve Nash looks better here, before his right eye swelled nearly shut after a collision with Tim Duncan's elbow. Nash still took over the game in the fourth quarter. ​At the end of the Suns' game yesterday against San Antonio, Spurs great David Robinson ran onto the ... More >>

Arizona Diamondbacks Hit Season Low As Phoenix Suns Soar

Obviously, both a glorious and gruesome weekend for Phoenix's professional basketball and baseball teams, respectively. ​ Alas, our task here is not to recount the Suns sweep of the Spurs in a memorable one-eyed effort by one Steve Nash.  No, we are here to report on the absolutely mis ... More >>

Morning Poll -- Cinco de Mayo: Is it a Legit Holiday in U.S. Or Has it Lost its Meaning and Become Just Another Excuse to Get Bombed?

www.wondercomments.com​Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, so if you're reading this, there's a good chance you're hung-over. If that's the case, grab yourself some aspirin and take our poll. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Fend of San Antonio Spurs Rallies to Win Game One; Game Two: Tomorrow Night in Phoenix

www.usaplayers.com Steve Nash scored 33 points last night, despite playing with a sore hip.​Steve Nash has a sore hip? Could've fooled us, and just about anyone else who watched last night's Phoenix Suns playoff game against the Sun-slaying San Antonio Spurs. The Suns ended their game one ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Controversial 2008 Decision to Dump Shawn Marion? Priceless

As the Phoenix Suns steel themselves for what promises to be a killer best-of-seven series against longtime nemesis San Antonio, The Matrix, a.k.a. Shawn Marion, pops into our sports-addled head.   ​Once an almost-superstar with the Suns, and now relegated to a glorified journeyman role ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Beat Portland In Game Six to Win First-Round Series 4-2. Showdown With Hated Men in Black Begins Monday Night

nba.com The lights-out offense of Jason Richardson pushed the Suns past the stubborn Blazers in the first-round. He had 28 points and five threes last night in Portland.​Steve Nash played his worst game of the season and was still the hero of the Phoenix Suns' 99-90 victory over the tenaci ... More >>

NBA Playoffs: Phoenix Suns vs. San Antonio Spurs (Game 1)

NBA Playoffs: Phoenix Suns vs. San Antonio Spurs (Game 2)

Phoenix Suns Destroy Denver Nuggets to Assure Home-Court Advantage In First Round of Playoffs. If Suns Beat Utah Tonight, They Finish Third in West

phoenixsuns.com With assists from Goran Dragic, Lou Amundson was a dunking machine in the Suns' beat-down of the Nuggets. ​The Phoenix Suns blasted out to an 18-2 lead over the Denver Nuggets early in the first quarter of last night's game against the Denver Nuggets, and they nev ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Control Hated Men in Black 112-101; In Three-Way Tie for Second in West. Next Game: At Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday Night

nba.com Starting-point-guard-of-the-future Goran Dragic sealed the deal for the Suns against the San Antonio Spurs.​Sticky-fingered Slovenian Goran Dragic made us forget about Steve Nash in the fourth quarter of the Phoenix Suns' solid victory over the feared-and-loathed San Antonio S ... More >>

Slam Punked

Suns and Spurs continue potentially dying rivalry

Spurs of the Moment

We still loathe these guys, even without Bowen and Horry

Motown Modown

Suns take on the other team that raises our hackles

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 go ... More >>

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, a ... More >>

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 Orla ... More >>

Kobe: Doin' Work

All-Star Schedule

Tougher San Antonio Spurs Find a Way to Beat the Phoenix Suns -- Again

This time, it wasn't a heartbreaking three at the buzzer that pushed the San Antonio Spurs past the Phoenix Suns. It wasn't a cheap-shot foul by a Spurs sub against a Suns star. It wasn't Suns turnovers killing any chance Steve Nash & Co. had of winning the game. It wasn't less-than-Al ... 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 >>

Icing on Cupcake: Phoenix Suns Take on 3-28 Okie Thunder Tonight

Thunder star Kevin Durant after a dunk. What's a surefire cure for depression? For the Phoenix Suns -- losers of a brutally heartbreaking game on Christmas Day to the San Antonio Spurs -- a cupcake; namely, the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Merry Effen Xmas, Phoenix: San Antonio Edges the Suns With a Buzzer-Beater

This year's Phoenix Suns are playing better than ever. They've looked good in the last six games. Unfortunately, they're 3-3 in those contests against (save for the New York Knicks) good teams. Turnovers have killed the Suns all season, and while they've gotten better at protecting the basketb ... More >>

Ghosts of Christmas Past

Glad Tidings, Our Ass: San Antonio Spurs at Phoenix Suns on Christmas

Anyone else miss the good ol' days, when the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs were locked in a bitter struggle for ideological supremacy (and home-court advantage in the playoffs)? When the Lakers and Hornets were laughable, and the thought of a return to form for the Boston Celtics was like some ... More >>

Bad News Bears

We heart Memphis. We hate the Griz.

Phoenix Suns Season Opener Viewing Party

Don't let the Suns catch you crying

Suns Setting Soon

Tall Tale

NBA Western Conference Playoffs, Round One, Game Four: San Antonio Spurs at Phoenix Suns

Steve Kerr's been beating the odds his whole life

Kerr's legendary moments

Just Score, Baby

Pigskin pinball machine takes the offensive

Dallas in Wonderland

Tim Dunkin'

Remember the Alamodome

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.

NBA Commish David Stern: Jackass du jour...

Elephant Slayer

Napolitano deftly played politics this legislative session to fend off all GOP foes

Stingray Stung

These fish need a little more schooling

GO AWAY, SUNS

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