It’s getting harder and harder to have faith in the Phoenix Suns these days.
Aside from Leandro Barbosa, Grant Hill and maybe Steve Nash, it just didn’t seem like anybody really cared that awful much while the Suns dropped another one, this time 122-111 to Chicago.
Yes, the same Chicago team whose owner called the Bulls a [...]

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Bulls 122, Suns 111

 
 
 
 
 
 
The Suns will get to see just what kind of a difference Shaq makes in tonight’s tilt against the Bulls.
Chicago dominated the first meeting, winning 100-83 on Nov. 7 on its home floor, in a game Shaq missed for rest, an issue Bulls head coach Vinny Del Negro used in his pregame [...]

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The script is often different, but it always ends in the same painful manner when the Suns and Spurs renew acquaintances.
Thursday’s 114-104 demoralizer was just more of the same.
This script read great offensive first half with zero turnovers – that’s right, no turnovers – but no lead either because San Antonio’s offense was just as [...]

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Spurs 114, Suns 104

 
 
 
 
 
With the Suns’ season at somewhat of a crossroads, who else would be in town to welcome them home from a grueling six-game road trip than their old friends, the San Antonio Spurs?
San Antonio games are always bigger for Phoenix because that’s the team the Suns could never get past during the [...]

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NBA coaches are often benefactors or victims of their situations.
Everybody knows Phil Jackson is a great coach, but would he have won nine NBA championships without Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant?
In that same vein Marc Iavaroni wouldn’t possess a 33-90 career head coaching mark if he wasn’t in charge of a [...]

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I’ll be the first to admit my ValleyoftheSuns.com poll is far from scientific, but it certainly says something when 88.4 percent of my 155 voters don’t believe Amare Stoudemire should start the All-Star Game.
Granted, the stats, national analysts and basically anyone who follows the NBA favors Dirk Nowitzki for that spot, but usually polls on [...]

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