Amare Stoudemire’s All-Star self-promotion campaign finished up today with his fourth and final video, “Baby Powder.”
You all know by now that Amare leads Andrew Bynum by about a gazillion votes, and surely the viral campaign had something to do with it (getting listed as the Suns’ “center” probably had more to do with it, though).
To [...]

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PHOENIX — The Milwaukee Bucks touched down in Phoenix in the wee hours Monday morning after being thrashed by the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night.
They proceeded to find out that stud guard Michael Redd would be out for the year after tearing his ACL and MCL for the second year in a row, and [...]

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PHOENIX — What were you doing back on Feb. 21, 1987?
That’s the last time the Milwaukee Bucks won a basketball game in Phoenix, a 115-107 victory in which Phoenix’s leading scorer was Walter Davis and Alvan Adams played 26 minutes off the bench.
That game was so long ago the average cost of gas was 89 [...]

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Suns 105, Bucks 101
PHOENIX — When Alvin Gentry took over the Suns’ head coaching position after last year’s All-Star break, he vowed to make the Suns better at home and then did just that.
The Suns reeled off victories in 24 of their first 27 games under Gentry, but since then have looked more like Terry [...]

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PHOENIX — When legendary former Arizona basketball head coach Lute Olson visits US Airways Center to cheer on his former center Channing Frye, it must be strange for him to watch the college post player jack up 12 threes, as Frye did with Olson sitting in the second row on Wednesday against Houston.
“He gives me [...]

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PHOENIX — The Suns have no problem running up a double-digit lead. Keeping that lead is a completely different story.
Phoenix jumped out to a 13-point lead early in the second quarter yet trailed by six at the half when the Heat countered with a 29-10 run over the final eight minutes of the half against [...]

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