PHOENIX — It seems like just yesterday we were worrying about a flailing Suns team and the possibility of falling out of the playoff picture.
On Jan. 26, the Suns fell to their lowest point of the season, just five games over .500 at 26-21. It looked like the Suns could be left out of the [...]

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Phoenix Suns vice president of digital operations Jeramie McPeek spoke to the Internet marketing company Vertical Measures (my day job) at the beginning of the year to make predictions about where social media and sports are headed in 2010. He also discussed Jared Dudley’s use of Twitter, the Suns’ social media setup, and the importance of better Twitter analytics [...]

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Exactly 41 days ago Phoenix Suns power forward Amare Stoudemire sat with his arms crossed, warmups on and a towel around his neck as he watched his team outscore the Dallas Mavericks 28-16 in the fourth quarter en route to a 112-106 victory. The 2002-03 Rookie of the Year turned five-time NBA All-Star sat for [...]

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I know what you’re thinking at first glance, what kind of homer Suns blog is this?
But I give you Professor John Hollinger of ESPN Insider, who devised a rating system to rank players by adding up their two-point, three-point and free-throw percentages.
He calls this “Combined Shooting Rating.” By this measure Nash is the greatest shooter [...]

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PHOENIX — More than a year and a half ago, the San Antonio Spurs used the 45th overall pick in the NBA Draft to select a 22-year-old Slovenian point guard who’d been playing professional basketball since the age of 17.
The Spurs quickly traded the player’s draft rights to the Phoenix Suns, who signed him nearly three [...]

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Phoenix Suns center Channing Frye has been suspended without pay for Friday’s game against the Lakers for throwing a punch at Pacers forward Danny Granger during an altercation in Saturday’s game, NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson announced today. Granger was also suspended for fighting with Frye. Here is an excerpt from a statement by the NBA:
The Indiana Pacers’ [...]

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