What a bizarre time for Phoenix to be hosting All-Star Weekend.
The Arizona Republic’s Dan Bickley said it best in yesterday’s column: “We’re staging a party inside a crumbling basketball empire. Welcome, folks, and please watch out for the cracked concrete and falling stones.”
The Suns wouldn’t even be in the playoffs if the season ended today, [...]

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What a fitting way for Phoenix to enter the All-Star break.
In Wednesday’s 109-92 defeat in Cleveland the Suns suffered their worst turnover game of the year – which is saying something – allowed an opposing stud guard to set a career high, started strong but then faded and ultimately got blown out in a loss [...]

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Cavaliers 109, Suns 92

 
 
 
 
 
 
It would be easy for the Suns to mail this one in and call it a first half.
After all, they did that Monday in Philly, last week in Oakland, a few weeks back in Boston and Charlotte, and you get the point.
These are after all the mighty LeBrons, they of the 23-1 [...]

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For those of you who want to know a little more about me and what I’m doing with this blog, check out TrueHoop’s “Meet Your Blogger” Q and A with me.
I really do feel like blogs such as this one are the future of journalism, especially in the Phoenix market where the East Valley Tribune [...]

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Amare Stoudemire of the Phoenix Suns is reputed to be a terrible defender and rebounder, but statistical analysis takes a look at if that really is the case.

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Many times over the past month the Suns have appeared to be giving up through their uninspired play.
Then came Monday’s 108-91 loss in Philadelphia, in which the Suns literally gave up. And I’m not even talking about their effort on the floor, which wasn’t exactly stellar in its own right.
Shaquille O’Neal and Grant Hill exited [...]

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