Entries from January 2010

Preview: Heat (17-16) at Suns (23-13)

January 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Heat 109, Suns 105

PHOENIX — Alvin Gentry barely had time to comprehend how his team prevailed in a wild game against the Houston Rockets before a TV reporter lobbed him a question about Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat.
“Can I at least enjoy this one for five minutes?” Gentry [...]

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Tags: Miami Heat · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Preview

Gentry mad, Nash ambivalent about All-Star results

January 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments

PHOENIX — The latest round of All-Star voting results came in Thursday, and Tracy McGrady lengthened his lead over Steve Nash from about 1,000 to over 2,000 votes despite not even being with his Houston Rockets team that Nash’s 26 and 12 helped take down on Wednesday night.
With Allen Iverson set to start in the [...]

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Tags: All-Star Weekend · Alvin Gentry · Amare Stoudemire · Phoenix Suns News · Steve Nash

Suns 118, Rockets 110 — Back and forth win

January 6th, 2010 · 6 Comments

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns have come to define inconsistency during the 2009-10 season, be it from November to December or from the Lakers-Boston stretch to the Memphis game.
In Wednesday’s win against Houston, the Suns strutted out their inconsistency all game long, turning a 16-point lead into a 16-point deficit in 14 minutes of game [...]

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Tags: Bench · Channing Frye · Houston Rockets · Jason Richardson · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap

Preview: Rockets (20-15) at Suns (22-13)

January 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Suns 118, Rockets 110

One day after the Suns snapped a seven-game road losing streak that spanned the entirety of December, Phoenix will return home to the Valley attempting to end another ugly losing streak: that involving the vile second game of a back-to-back.
The Suns have dropped five straight [...]

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Tags: Houston Rockets · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Preview

Amare Stoudemire and David Spade: Episode 3

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Phoenix Suns forward center Amare Stoudemire in All-Star video 3 of 4 with David Spade. As of the latest voting released on Dec. 31, STAT led the Lakers’ Andrew Bynum by about 500K votes at the center position. Steve Nash could use some help, though, dropping behind Houston’s inactive Tracy McGrady by about a thousand [...]

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Tags: All-Star Weekend · Amare Stoudemire · Phoenix Suns News · Steve Nash

Suns 113, Kings 109 — Suns snap road skid

January 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments

No one said it would be easy, but the Suns captured their first road win since Nov. 29 tonight as they gutted out a win in Sacramento, holding off the Kings, 113-109.
Prior to tonight, the Suns had lost consecutive road games to the Knicks, Cavs, Lakers, Mavs, Nuggets, Trail Blazers and Warriors.
The seven-game road losing streak [...]

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Tags: Amare Stoudemire · Jason Richardson · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Sacramento Kings · Steve Nash