Phoenix Suns

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25-- The number of assists Phoenix had, on 36 field goals. Pretty impressive. Steve Nash led the way with 10 assists. 14 and 12 -- The points and rebound totals for Kurt Thomas in his return to Phoenix. Thomas finished with a double-double for the second time this season.

The downtown Phoenix sports bar owned by the former Suns star will take over the space vacated by Rockfish.

The decision to move center Kurt Thomas gives the Suns salarycap relief and financial flexibility.

Suns AllStar Shawn Marion is leaning toward not participating in this summers USA Basketball games due to foot pain.

Alando Tucker, an athletic, 6foot6, 205pound forward from Wisconsin who was Big Ten Player of the Year, was Thursday nights firstround prize for Phoenix.

Alando Tucker and D.J. Strawberry each share a need to improve their shots but also some qualities that got them drafted by Phoenix.

Phoenix will be putting its free agency priority on acquiring Grant Hill. He will get his first chance today when the Suns make him their free agency priority.

Suns General Manager Steve Kerr recently was talking about how 99 percent of the deals that are talked about this time of year never come to fruition.

Kobe Bryant is a siren. Kevin Garnett is a temptress. Grant Hill is easily within reach. These must be dizzying times for the Suns new front office.

Steve Kerr talks about the difficulty of trading for Kevin Garnett while David Griffin talks about the possibility of trading into the top 12 of Thursdays draft.

Kevin Garnett may like Phoenix, but he had better figure out how he could possibly be traded here.

Phoenix brought in a draft workout group of lesser names but still found a gem in Chris Richard. The Suns also are pondering taking another look at Gabe Pruitt and Petteri Koponen.

By Paul Coro The Suns are linked the rumors as trade destinations for Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant. But it's unlikely to happen.

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By John Faherty Riding emotion and a raucous crowd, the Phoenix Suns played hard, but awkwardly, for the entire game against the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night.

The Game 5 suspensions of Amar Stoudemire and Boris Diaw leave the Suns with rotation issues. A short bench becomes even shorter. fWhackAHorry game

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There was no good way to tell the Suns that Amar Stoudemire and Boris Diaw would be suspended for tonights Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals.

By Paul Coro Phoenix has a challenge heading into tonight's Game 3 of its conference semifinals matchup vs. the Spurs.

Turns out the Phoenix Suns style does work in the playoffs, especially when it comes to advertising. Trophy Guy, the physical embodiment of the NBAs championship trophy who has, in a series of commercials, been pondering a move to Phoenix, impressed league officials enough that they wan...

The Suns doubledipped into the AllNBA bowl, placing Amar Stoudemire and Steve Nash on a first team of oddities.

The Spurs have limited the Suns longrange shooting in this Western Conference semifinal series, but the Suns can always just dump it inside to Amar Stoudemire, whos among the leagues best at converting threepoint plays.

Were backing Suns trainer Aaron Nelson. Hes getting hammered for for his work on the infamous Steve Nash gash in Game 1, and its getting stupid. Suddenly, everybody has a medical degree.

The Suns guard and NBA Sixth Man is uneasy with his increased popularity. b Diaw, Parker finally meet in playoffs

The Suns got even in more than just their Western Conference semifinal series in Tuesday nights 10181 victory against the San Antonio Spurs at US Airways Center.

By Jason P. Skoda Tony Parker might have tumbled to the court when he and Steve Nash butted heads, but the Spurs point guard continued to leave a bruise on the Suns at US Airways Center.

The Suns advanced to the second round for the third straight year by closing out their series with Wednesdays 119110 victory at US Airways Center.

Phoenix has not shot poorly from threepoint range but it had not executed a long run of longdistance marksmanship, either.

By Doug Haller and Paul Coro Apologies to Steve Nash, but he's not the Suns' MVP.

LOS ANGELES After the Game 3 loss, Suns coach Mike DAntoni guaranteed that Phoenix would push the tempo again against the Lakers and said Steve Nash would see to it.

Suns reserve guard Leandro Barbosa is about as impossible to slow down as a sneeze.

We ran into Steve Nash more than a month ago after a Suns practice and asked him how he was holding up.

The men who sit in the Suns locker room dwell on the same thing that the people in the orange Tshirts walking the Valleys streets do the title. But before everybody gets ahead of themselves, it might be worth recognizi just what Phoenix has accomplished already.

For the third consecutive year, Victor Leija of Phoenix has led a team of window cleaners in an unusual task.

Despite a seasonworst 38.2 percent shooting night, an 0for6 night from James Jones, Amar Stoudemire missing his first six shots, the Suns held on Friday night for a 9385 home victory against the Lakers.

The Suns have tried Boris Diaw, Leandro Barbosa, Kurt Thomas and, with Wednesdays game, James Jones in search of the answer for the teams fifth starter. The four joined Shawn Marion in giving the Suns the 10991 victory.

By Paul Coro The Suns would like to see a reincarnation of the Boris Diaw that was putting up triple-doubles a year ago but are getting minimal impact from their passing big man of late.

By Paul Coro Suns center Amaré Stoudemire denied the frustration after the game but it was clear during the Suns' 103-95 victory Friday. The foul troubles are back for Stoudemire, who ranks third in the NBA for fouls per game.

Everything the Suns had shored up recently on offense unraveled Thursday night against San Antonio like a jersey caught on a spur. San Antonio denied Phoenix its comfort zone, holding the Suns to one of their worst offensive games in a 9285 Spurs victory

The Suns use of smaller lineups was a main reason they had a 35point turnaround Friday against Denver.

By Paul Coro This is the first season that Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver has experienced living in the Valley. Sarver is enjoying the team's success but is itching for more.

For a stretch of nearly 11 minutes Sunday, Leandro Barbosa was the Suns offense. He scored 17 consecutive Suns points, one off Steve Nashs franchise record. Barbosa scored 15 of them in a stretch of 406 in the second quarter, ending Phoenixs fourminute scoreless stretch.

Party with Phoenix Suns starter Raja Bell Wednesday at Axis/Radius and you might be on TV.

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.

US Airways Center is the site tonight for a possible NBA Finals matchup. So why are so many people talking about a game the Suns already won?

The Suns had just completed another awkward win, squeaking by another inferior team on their home court, and Raja Bell sat at his locker examining the nights stat sheet.

By Paul Coro Steve Nash is probable. Shawn Marion is questionable. Boris Diaw is out. A Suns season noted for its win streaks takes its next turn tonight against the Indiana Pacers at US Airways Center, and a streak of injuries has stolen the spotlight.

By Paul Coro Steve Nash can win the big one, but the Suns can't. That is the consensus among those watching Nash's bid for a third consecutive Most Valuable Player Award and Phoenix's quest for its first NBA title.

By Paul Coro Suns radio announcer Al McCoy calls Steve Nash the ''Nash Rambler'' after the 1950s car. That was appropriate for how Nash described a possible symbiotic tie between his shoulder, which finally showed improvement the past two days, and his chronic vertebra condition.