By rss@youtube.com (SUHERD) Author: SUHERD Keywords: Phoenix Suns Steve Nash Mike D'Antoni Added: December 2, 2009

By reebokforthree He isn’t a dominating rebounder, but as a center he is good for blocked shots and he is one of the few three point shooters at the position. Danilo Gallinari, G/F, New York Knicks This summer when Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni said Gallinari is the best shooter he’s ever seen, people listened.

Mike D'Antoni is gone to the New York Knicks, yet some of the Phoenix Suns are still playing as if he's coaching them. Steve Nash scored 15 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, when he rallied the Suns to a 109-107 season-opening victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night.

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Mike D'Antoni is going to calm down on the refs. Yeah, and Alvin Gentry won't get any technicals this season either. http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/knicks/2009/10/26/2009-10-26_new_york_knicks_coach_mike_dantoni.html

By J.E. Skeets Suns star Amare Stoudemire laughs in the face of no one during the fourth quarter of a preseason game against the Kings on Tuesday in Phoenix. Best caption wins a whoopee cushion. Good luck. Now we know how the Knicks players got D'Antoni to cancel morning shootarounds. Nice work Nate.

Mike D'Antoni was in his first full season as the Suns head coach and added free agent point guard Steve Nash to a nucleus that included Leandro Barbosa, Shawn Marion and Amar'e Stoudemire. Phoenix started 31-4 in 2004-05, and Nash averaged a double-double over an entire season for the fir...

Nash and the Suns are adjusting to life without the offensively brilliant D’Antoni, and when the Knicks visited the Suns on Monday, Nash told reporters from Phoenix and New York that he was having a difficult time adjusting to the loss of D’Antoni and the recent trade of Raja Bell and Boris...

By David Friedman(Doc319@yahoo.com) The acquisition of O'Neal last year cured the Suns' size problems in the paint and gave them at least the theoretical possibility of beating the Spurs in a playoff series. I don't really expect the Suns to win the West but if their players stop whining and start playing defense then they could be a tough out come playoff time. They certainly have enough talent on their roster to make some noise but Amare Stoudemire needs to stop talking about being the man and start grabbing more rebounds and playing defense, while Steve Nash needs to stop talking wistfully about the good old days with Mike D'Antoni (when the Suns never once made it to the NBA Finals) and he needs to show that he really can, in fact, make players better by finding ways to bring out t...   [read the full post]

By Tom Ziller The Suns, on the other hand, are theoretically a byproduct of Mike D'Antoni and therefore LESS so guaranteed a playoff spot than they were as year ago. Moore: Clearly you are forgetting the awesome power of Tim Thomas and DeAndre Jordan.

By Matt Watson According to Paul Coro of the Arizona Republic, Porter is open to Steve Kerr's suggestion to bring former Hornets and Cavs head coach Paul Silas on board as his lead assistant. Alvin Gentry, who served under Mike D'Antoni, may be retained, and Dan Majerle is also a candidate for a spot on his...

Every time there’s been a coaching change in Phoenix since then, the new team leader has come from inside the organization, generally from the ranks of assistant coaches such as Paul Westphal, Danny Ainge, Frank Johnson, Scott Skiles…and Mike D’Antoni. That’s led to great continuity an...

So the divorce is finally official. Mike D’Antoni gets $24 million in alimony and Steve Kerr gets custody of the Phoenix Suns. Coach Mike D'Antoni will spend next season in New York after he couldn't help bring a title to Phoenix over the past several seasons. NBAE Photos)

Of course, these picks mean nothing if D'Antoni remains and does not listen to Kerr and Sarver's concessions toward defense and development of players, ... Bordow: Five ways to fix the Suns East Valley Tribune Suns' Kerr wants to keep D'Antoni Denver Post

By Will Brinson Filed under: Suns, Western, NBA Gossip, NBA Rumors, PhoenixIf that headline seems negative, it's only because I think that if Steve Kerr doesn't plan on keeping Mike D'Antoni as head coach of the Phoenix Suns -- and that's t he way I'm leaning right now -- then why lead him on? On the other ha...

Suns Head Coach Mike D’Antoni said he didn’t have any answers after Game 3. He said that he hasn’t seen a team play that well and that perfectly-played game has left the Suns down 3-0 to their nemesis. So while San Antonio is the first team in the 2008 NBA Playoffs to take a 3-0 advantage, where do...

Leandro Barbosa is going to start in place of Grant Hill, who is laboring with a strained groin. Coach Mike D’Antoni considered starting Boris Diaw, but if one of his bigs got tired, he wanted to be able to sub in Boris to provide some relief.

By David Friedman For several seasons, Phoenix Coach Mike D'Antoni has tried to convince the world that the Suns could win an NBA championship without a dominant post player and without having the best player in the game (Steve Nash may have convinced the writers that he was the best player in the NBA but that was never the case and he was never the best player on the court when the Suns got eliminated twice by Tim Duncan's Spurs and once by Dirk Nowitzki's Mavericks). Historically, championship teams have been anchored by a great post player; the Jordan-Pippen Bulls were a notable exception and there have been a few other teams that won a title as an ensemble cast that neither had a dominant post player nor the best player in the league--but the Bulls and those o...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman Amare Stoudemire scored 42 points and Steve Nash dished out 17 assists as the Phoenix Suns built a 15 point lead, fell behind by five points in the fourth quarter and then rallied to pull out a 121-117 road win against the Pacers. "We had two or three games out there," Suns Coach Mike D'Antoni said with a chuckle after the game. "We played well, they played well and we played well. It ended on a good note." Stoudemire's points and Nash's assists are both season-highs for any Suns player in those categories. Stoudemire shot 15-24 from the field and 12-13 from the free throw line. He also had 13 rebounds and four assists and managed to play the last 6:14 of the game despite having five fouls. Nash scored 17 points on 6-9 shooting, though he surprisingly mis...   [read the full post]

By Norm Frauenheim Suns coach Mike D'Antoni says the race for the NBA's Most Valuable Player still is between Phoenix playmaker Steve Nash and Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki, despite reports of a third contender.

By Paul Coro Suns coach Mike D'Antoni agrees with the couch coaches in one regard. Had he known the Suns were going to lose badly Friday to Detroit, he would have tried playing Kurt Thomas more.