At the end of the Suns’ game yesterday against San Antonio, Spurs great David Robinson ran onto the court to offer heartfelt congratulations to… Phoenix Coach Alvin Gentry! The retired San Antonio center and NBA legend then escorted the coach who’s molded the Suns into a contender this season off the court, grinning ear-to-ear with…
Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Rodrigo Lopez had a solid outing at Minute Maid Park in Houston, but it all came to naught. The Houston Astros got just three hits and two runs over seven innings, but it didn’t matter when Astros outfielder Carlos Lee blasted a walk-off home run to left field off…
Steve Nash played his worst game of the season and was still the hero of the Phoenix Suns’ 99-90 victory over the tenacious Portland Trail Blazers last night. Nash seemed out of synch for much of the first-round series against the Blazers, and game six was no exception. The previously mighty…
There’s no nice way of saying it; Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Edwin Jackson sucked ass last night at Coors Field in Denver. And with the exception of the great Dan Haren, the Snakes better get some consistent, professional pitching out of their hapless hurlers, or it’s going to be a very long season. Jackson…
Brandon Roy was the difference. That and uninspired play by the hottest team in the NBA at the end of the regular season. But this is the playoffs, and Roy, who had knee surgery just eight days before, was miraculously back in a Portland uniform, and it was the superstar swingman…
It’s not the end of the world. Each NBA playoff series is a best-of-seven, and we’ve seen many teams lose the first game and go on to take the series. But damn… The Phoenix Suns were handled from the opening jump at US Airways Center last night by Coach Nate McMillan and…
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 never looked back. The lead was 27 by the end of the third period at US Airways Center, and the Suns wound up embarrassing…
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 Spurs last night. Almost. Nash did put up impressive numbers in the game at US Airways Center: 18 points and 12 assists in just 30 minutes. Point…
Friday’s home game against Coach Mike D’Antoni’s New York Knicks and yesterday’s road contest against Coach Kurt Rambis’ Minnesota Timberwolves both looked like blowouts in the first halves — only the Phoenix Suns wound up actually embarrassing the Knicks 132-96 while barely hanging on to beat the Wolves. The difference in the two games? Suns…
Finally, the Phoenix Suns open up a serious can of whup-ass on a bad team. Fact is, the Minnesota Timberwolves are the worst team in the NBA’s Western Conference, at 14-54. And who would’ve thunk it not that long ago, but the 42-26 Suns have become one of the best. With last…
Maybe it was that cursed TNT curse? Phoenix has won just one of the last 16 games when playing on the network that employs Charles Barkley. Because, based on 3 1/2 quarters of dominant play, we certainly thought the Purple & Oranage Gang would prevail. But it wasn’t to be, even after Barkley praised Coach Alvin…
It was a hell of a weekend for the Phoenix Suns, even though they got nipped 113-110 by the San Antonio Spurs at AT&T Center yesterday in the early game on ESPN. And the national audience wasn’t disappointed by this one. It was a seesaw battle all the way against the two…
The beaten-up Portland Trail Blazers played and lost the night before, and were in eighth place in the NBA’s Western Conference. The rested Phoenix Suns were on a five-game winning streak, with four of those victories coming on a four-game road trip, to make them fifth in the West. And on that trip, the Suns had…
It was a game that stunk of Houston Rockets flops — including one in which Rockets forward Carl Landry fell to the floor grabbing his face as though an eye had been poked out, even though instant-replay showed he wasn’t touched — but Phoenix held on to win 115-111 last night. There were so many…
Finally, it’s official: The Suns suck. With that strong start, we wanted to believe. Oh, how we wanted to believe! But after heartbreaking back-to-back losses to Utah Monday night and Charlotte last night, we’re giving up on the Suns’ season. Barring a miracle. Because it will take that for Coach Alvin Gentry’s…
We wouldn’t want to be Suns Coach Alvin Gentry. Amar’e Stoudemire trade talk has bubbled up again. The wheels have come off Gentry’s team. And he’s gotta do something to fix it. The Suns just went 0-4 on a road trip that took them to Indiana, Atlanta, Charlotte, and finally Memphis.They were humiliated by the…
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 leading the Miami Heat by 13 points early in the second period, the Suns…
21 turnovers were the culprits in the Phoenix Suns’ 105-99 road loss to the Denver Nuggets, a night after they’d stunned the second-best team in the Eastern Conference, the Orlando Magic,106-103 at US Airways Center. Aside from the outcomes, the games were almost identical. The Suns ran up big leads (19 points in…
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 Cleveland Cavaliers, wasn’t as embarrassing as…
Okay, there are 70 games to go in the regular season — not to mention more in the playoffs (prayerfully) — but the Phoenix Suns beat the Houston Rockets 111-105 last night to achieve the best record in the NBA so far at 10-2. No matter what the Beantowners and Angelenos…
Man, we’ve waited a long time for this! The Phoenix Suns dominated Chris Paul and New Orleans from the start at US Airways Center last night and wound up blowing out the Hornets (who challenged for NBA Western Conference supremacy a couple of seasons ago) 124-104. And (in a phrase we were…
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…
