So the one year the Suns miss the playoffs, the Spurs go in the tank early.
And to think, it’s a year ending with an odd number, too.
Sure, missing Manu killed them, but Dallas just played really well in that series. It’s kind of amazing that a team that Suns fans were expecting to collapse down [...]

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If the following rant comes across as sour grapes to you, that’s probably because you’re right.
If the Phoenix Suns weren’t the team getting the short end, I would be too busy worrying about their playoff run to really care (like last year, as short-lived as it was).
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t some truth to [...]

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PHOENIX – Ever since the Suns signed Steve Nash during the 2004 offseason, the team has essentially entered every summer trying to fill in the cracks to build around a core trio of players.
Of course, Shaq replaced Shawn Marion in the core entering this past offseason, but even then the Suns were just trying to [...]

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I’m joined by Ben York and Mark McLane from Fanster.com’s Deep Purple to discuss why the Suns didn’t reach the playoffs, the coaching situation and what we’d like to see the Suns do this offseason.

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PHOENIX – When rumors of a Terry Porter firing and ensuing Alvin Gentry promotion started making the rounds, I originally figured the Suns should just stick it out with Porter because how would Gentry be that much of an upgrade?
Of course, I didn’t realize that Porter had lost this team to the point that just making [...]

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PHOENIX – I’ll admit it, I was in denial about the 2008-09 Phoenix Suns.
No matter how many times they lost to bad teams, no matter how many times they lost at home and no matter how often they didn’t look like the Phoenix Suns of recent vintage, I still believed they were the same old [...]

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