Last January the Suns dropped a game in the Pepsi Center when Grant Hill was tripped by Dahntay Jones and bodied by Nene on a last-second foray to the hoop. No whistle blew, and the Suns lost in overtime.
Forgive the Suns if they felt a sense of deja vu in their locker room after this [...]

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Nuggets 105, Suns 99

PHOENIX — The Suns and Nuggets head into tonight’s tilt in the Mile High City with identical 16-7 records, but if I didn’t know any better the Suns may as well be the Minnesota Timberwolves the way they are expected to lose this second game of a back-to-back set.
That’s because [...]

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PHOENIX — Amare Stoudemire and Dwight Howard both came into the league as supremely talented and athletic high schoolers who could dominate games with their tools alone.
Howard has grown into a dominant presence on the boards and the defensive end, but he doesn’t have much of an offensive game to speak of outside the lane. [...]

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Suns 106, Magic 103

PHOENIX — Having lost four of their last five, the Suns are in dire need of a win. Coming home may just be the answer to their recent woes.
With a 7-0 record at US Airways Center, the Suns are the only team in the NBA still unbeaten [...]

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On the heels of last year’s successful pitch that got Suns forward Amare Stoudemire voted into the All-Star Game, Team Amare is at it again.
And he may not even need another viral marketing campaign this time around, as he leads the Lakers’ Andrew Bynum by about 150,000 votes at the “center” position after the first round [...]

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PHOENIX — Robin Lopez was the most popular guy in the gym Thursday at Suns practice — at least with the media — but not for reasons he’d probably like to be.
Everyone wanted to ask Lopez about the Wednesday incident in which he broke a glass door that opens to the practice court in US [...]

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