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Markieff Morris was not one of the 12 rookies who showed up in Rookie of the Year voting this month but he was a tabbed in February as one of 10 rookie “Rising Stars” for All-Star Weekend. The Suns power forward dropped out of the nba.com Rookie Ladder top 10 after the final week of the season but he made grantland.com’s top 10 rookies. Morris apparently will be a...
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Coming off a season with more DNPs than stat lines in Minnesota, Sebastian Telfair's NBA career was in peril when he arrived in Phoenix six months ago. Telfair had gone from a lottery pick at age 19 to a player switching teams for the sixth time in six years when he became a Sun. Even a backup job wasn't a given as he entered Suns training camp against returnee Zabian Dowdell, whose injury...
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Phoenix Suns update: Steve Nash's on-court performance is not the only thing that remained at an elite level this season. Nash won his first Magic Johnson Award for combining excellence on the court with cooperation with the media and fans. The annual Professional Basketball Writers Association award has gone to Kevin Durant, Chris Bosh, Brandon Roy and Nash's Suns co-captain,...
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Phoenix Suns update: When Portland's Jamal Crawford expressed that he should be in Phoenix to Suns broadcast analyst Eddie Johnson during an April game and then whispered in Suns coach Alvin Gentry's ear, the person most offended seemed to be Suns guard Shannon Brown. Brown came to Phoenix in late November with the sound of a player who would treat the year like a house flipper,...
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Jerry Colangelo helped draft Steve Nash in 1996, helped woo him back to Phoenix in 2004 and would have no problem helping him again even in competition. Colangelo, the USA Basketball chairman, supported the selection of Nash to be the Canada Basketball men's national team's general manager and would provide any support Nash seeks. In his introductory press conference Tuesday, Nash said...
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When Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby gave his postmortem assessment of the season and the franchise, he opened the talk with a "state of affairs" on the Suns' mission and philosophy. Tweetin' at www.twitter.com/paulcoro Here are his words: "The goal around here is for us to be an elite team. Our definition of that is a team that is going to legitimately...
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When Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby discussed the state of the franchise this week, he slipped one shocker into the address. With all the preoccupation on Steve Nash’s situation and how the Suns will approach free agency, Babby surprised much of Planet Orange when he revealed that it would be “quite likely if not certain” that the Suns would match any...
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Alvin Gentry will be the Suns coach next season. Suns President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby assured everyone of that Tuesday but that was not the question. During the Suns' second-half turnaround, there had been some inquiries inside and outside the building about Gentry getting a contract extension so that he did not enter next season in the final year of his contract. Despite a...
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This season's Suns were eliminated from being in the postseason a week ago but past Suns are still in the playoffs. Without counting guys they drafted and traded (Rajon Rondo, Luol Deng) or could have drafted (Andre Iguodala, a bunch of point guards), players turned coaches (Tyrone Corbin) or even coaches they could have had (Tom Thibodeau) or once had (Lionel Hollins and Vinny Del...
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Phoenix Suns update: Suns guard Steve Nash spoke for 10 minutes following the team’s losing finale Wednesday night at US Airways Center. Here is everything he said: On the home fans’ fourth-quarter “We want Steve” chant: "It was obviously amazing to get that type of reception and support. It's very special because it's not something I asked for or...
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Phoenix Suns update: Who starts, who plays and who wins will be irrelevant tonight at US Airways Center. As the curtain closes on the Suns season, the only remaining relevancy for a game that could have decided a playoff spot is whether it will be Steve Nash’s curtain call as a Sun. This could be the last Suns game day of Nash’s career, 10 years of which have been spent in Phoenix....
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Phoenix Suns update: Suns small forward Grant Hill will play in tonight's must-win game at Utah but Suns power forward Channing Frye will not. Hill went through exercises at Tuesday's morning shootaround without the issues that he experienced Saturday when he was a game-time scratch. During tonight's pregame, Hill went through a court workout and moved well enough without pain to make a return...
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Phoenix Suns update: Suns (33-31) at Jazz (34-30) … 7:30 p.m. tip C: Marcin Gortat … Al Jefferson PF: Markieff Morris or Hakim Warrick … Paul Millsap SF: Jared Dudley … DeMarre Carroll SG: Shannon Brown … Gordon Hayward PG: Steve Nash … Devin Harris Key Jazz injuries: Earl Watson (knee) and C.J. Miles are out. Raja Bell (knee) and...
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Phoenix Suns update: Suns forwards Channing Frye and Grant Hill remain questionable for Tuesday night's must-win game at Utah. Frye's situation became even more tenuous early this morning when his wife, Lauren, went into labor with their second child about a week early. Frye did not attend the team's Monday practice or join the team when it departed for the airport Monday afternoon. Suns coach...
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Phoenix Suns update: And then there were two. With Houston's loss at Miami today, there are two teams remaining in the hunt for the West's No. 8 seed, two games remaining for each team and two scenarios for the Suns to reach the playoffs. The Suns must win Tuesday night at Utah, who leads them by a game but would lose a tiebreaker, for either scenario to play out: 1. If the Suns win...