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…
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’…
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…
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…
Two 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…
You could see this coming after Kurt Warner’s trip to visit the San Francisco 49ers and his compromise offer to the Cardinals: He has agreed to a two-year, $23 million contract, with a $15 million signing bonus and $4 million in base salary. The remaining $4 million would be paid…
Kurt Warner makes a Christian move (sort of). In what ESPN’s calling a “hometown discount,” the Arizona Cardinals starting quarterback and his agent, Mark Bartelstein, apparently have amended his contract demand to the team to a two-year, $23 million deal, with $12 million guaranteed. The Cardinals had been offering $20 million over two…
Question: How much money does Kurt Warner need?! Answer: As much as he can possibly get. Forget all that Christian stuff when it comes to big-time athlete bucks; everybody wants every million they can wring out. Warner’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, wants us to believe that Kurt’s too moral to create a controversy to…
What a weekend for Planet Orange, and its largest inhabitant! We’re beginning to think of the Phoenix Suns as a planet again, after back-to-back victories against the Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Lakers at US Airways Center Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Shaquille O’Neal’s certainly big enough to be Jupiter, and…
Okay, Kurt Warner’s on the open market. He and the Arizona Cardinals, though talking, didn’t come to terms on a contract before the free-agency deadline today. What does this mean? Well, he could go to another team, that’s what it means. How much does this matter. Maybe a lot (it…
Like we’ve been saying all along, Cardinals starting quarterback Kurt Warner may be playing elsewhere next season. A blogger on azcardinals.com., the team’s official Web site, reports that Warner and the team are still about $4 million a year apart on a contract. Warner wants to be paid in the range of the top…
Didn’t we predict it would come to this? Yes we did, over and over. We said Kurt Warner would seek the highest salary possible following his improbable Super Bowl run, and that the Arizona Cardinals would resist. For two reasons: Because the Bidwills who own the franchise are known to…
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…
The good, of course, were Rajon Rondo (pictured) and the mighty Boston Celtics, who came into US Airways Center Sunday Afternoon and took care of business, 128-108, against the Phoenix Suns. The bad were the Oklahoma City Thunder, who got dominated by the Suns here Friday night, 140-118, in Phoenix’s third win in…
Just when things were beginning to look up for the Phoenix Suns. The team announced that power forward Amar’e Stoudemire — on the trading block until he stepped up his game after a recent coaching change — underwent surgery today for a “partially detached retina” and will be out for eight weeks “depending upon his healing process.”…
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 except Steve Nash…
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 pulled down 11 rebounds. We think…
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 abandon in the Suns’ 140-100 rout of the…
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 our team needed in order to…
The once-mighty Phoenix Suns went into the All-Star break with a whimper. Granted, they were playing one of the top teams in the league Wednesday evening, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had only lost one game at home. And the guy who probably has a lock on league MVP this year, LeBron James (the…
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. And when they mentioned that the 76ers were “well rested” after…
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 Golden…
