The Philadelphia 76ers are mediocre, with a dollop of turmoil. Former head coach Maurice Cheeks, one of the franchise’s all-time greats, got the bum’s rush back in December. Their marquee name, Elton Brand, is out for the rest of the season with a bad wing. Their top active player is…
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…
Home of the Pistons: The Palace at Auburn Hills For Phoenix Suns fans, there have been some stomachache-inducing moments this season. The disheartening blowouts in Boston and Charlotte. The heartbreaker on Christmas Day against San Antonio. However, the team’s official fall into bottomless pit of apathy occurred at the conclusion…
It’s past time for the Suns to panic. But they can’t muster up enough energy to even care whether another sub-.500 team blows them out. Pride? Apparently they have none. Is it that they hate Coach Terry Porter, he of the long practices, clich’ed press conferences, and tough-guy persona? Because they can’t really be this…
NBA bad boy Stephen Jackson has found a home in Golden State. We’re not big Mike D’Antoni fans. As electric as his six-and-shoot system was during the Phoenix days, it was a paper tiger that bared its cardboard fangs come playoff time. Plus, the dude began to buy into his…
For our own mental health, we’ve been trying to let go of the Super Bowl for two days now. We’ve been trying to remind ourselves that the NFL is sports entertainment, and that we correctly predicted what was going to happen: Cardinals fans would be massively outnumbered in Tampa, and…
You know what it means that the Suns blew out the Sacramento Kings 129-81 at US Airways Center Monday night? Nothing. The Kings are 11-39, officially the third-worst team in the NBA at 11-39 (the L.A. Clippers and the Washington Wizards are tied for worst at 10-38). Running them out…
Kevin Martin, the Sacramento Kings’ only real baller. An 0-20 record against the Eastern Conference, a 3-22 mark on the road, and more than 25 games out of first place in the Pacific Division. Yeah, it’s safe to say that the Sacramento Kings’ season’s pretty much over. Though the Phoenix…
The biggest game in Arizona Cardinals history — the second-biggest in Arizona sports history — is over, and what can we take away from it? Sure the Cardinals snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, but they certainly had the odds-makers in Vegas sweating. For the fourth game in a…
The Phoenix Suns nearly pulled it off in 1993. The 1996 Arizona State Sun Devils football squad totally had it until the final seconds. And now the Arizona Cardinals are a game away from sports immortality. (And, arguably, the biggest comeback in modern-day athletics.) So some words of advice to…
NBA No. 1 Derrick Rose makes his US Airways debut. From the January 26, 2009, morning paper: “Leading by as many as 16 in the first quarter and shooting 57.6 percent through three quarters, the team collapsed down the stretch by shooting 8-for-29.” Sound familiar? The quote isn’t about one…
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…
It was an unlikely coming-out party for Washington State freshman Klay Thompson at Wells Fargo Arena last night, as the rail-thin guard led the Cougars to a 65-55 upset over the Arizona State Sun Devils. The son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson hit shots from all over the court, stealing the…
The ASU men’s basketball team hasn’t played in eight long days. It was back on January 21 that they squeaked by the Arizona Wsildcats in Tucson in a game that, safe to say, won’t be placed into a time capsule for future generations to marvel at. Even the best of all…
Roger Mason of the (grrrr) Spurs It’s Christmas Day in Phoenix. You wake up early, even before the kids, to take care of some last-minute errands. But it isn’t because you’re a good dad and want to be free of afternoon obligations in order to spend quality time with the…
Hell hath no fury like Steelers fans, dissed. One day after a Cardinals rally at Sky Harbor Airport, where Mayor Phil Gordon stomped on one of the Steelers’ signature “Terrible Towels,” the mayor’s getting slammed on Pittsburgh talk radio — and bombarded with nasty e-mails. You can watch our original footage of…
An estimated 1,800 fans turned out at Sky Harbor airport this morning to give the Arizona Cardinals a rousing send-off on their way to Tampa Bay for the Super Bowl. The enthusiastic Cardinals supporters and their families, many holding homemade signs (or babies in cute, red jerseys) lined up near a Northwest Airlines jet…
In 2004-05, the Washington Wizards boasted the NBA’s most fearsome backcourt. Led by ex-UA Wildcat standout Gilbert Arenas, Antwan Jamison, and Larry Hughes, Washington earned a modest forty-five victories in the regular season, but turned heads during the NBA Playoffs with its first-round conquest of the Chicago Bulls (before being…
The Phoenix Suns longest road trip of the year was a disaster — until the Big Three (no, not those Big Three) found a way to win against the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday. We’re talking about Steve Nash, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Shaquille O’Neal. Nash played so brilliantly against the Hawks that we’ll…
Charlotte’s Boris Diaw in his strange new role: starter. If Charlotte were Philly, the Phoenix Suns would be wise to beware of flying alkaline batteries and half-filled beer cups when they take the court against the Bobcats at Time Warner Cable Arena at 5 p.m. tonight. But North Carolina’s still part…
Mike D’Antoni had the last laugh. His work-in-progress New York Knicks held on and beat the Phoenix Suns at Madison Square Garden by five points. Mighty mite Nate Robinsion, in 25 minutes off the bench, demolished the Suns on Wednesday night. Seemed everything the 5-9 one-time NBA slam-dunk champion threw up went in…
Is Glendale horrifically boring, its citizens so apathetic toward football they wouldn’t care if Larry Fitzgerald was nearly killed in a motorcyle accident?That’s what blogger Jason McIntyre of the Metro of Philadelphia writes in a recent blog post trashing the town entitled “Glendale Less Than Super.” In his light-hearted, trash-talking…
