PHOENIX — When the Phoenix Suns acquired Hedo Turkoglu, everybody knew he would be a liability defending power forwards.
But the thinking went, “Sure, maybe he can’t guard many natural fours too well, but how in the world will any natural fours defend him on the perimeter?”
Through three games only one of those assumptions has proven [...]

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PHOENIX — A week ago the Phoenix Suns were embarrassed by Denver in an ugly game that capped a putrid preseason that had to make even the most optimistic Suns fan question whether the team could just turn it on when the games count.
One week later the Suns have just one win and two losses, [...]

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Lakers 114, Suns 106

The last time the Los Angeles Lakers visited US Airways Center Kobe Bryant went bonkers, Steve Nash weeped in the locker room, Amare Stoudemire waved goodbye to the Phoenix crowd for the final time and Sasha Vujacic nearly started an international incident with Goran Dragic.
The Suns have since [...]

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Phoenix had every opportunity to blow another big lead Thursday.
Anybody who has watched the Suns for the past few years might have gotten that same eerily familiar uneasy feeling in their stomachs.
Up 18 midway through the third quarter and seemingly cruising to an easy victory, Phoenix allowed Utah to run off 11 straight points to close the gap [...]

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Suns 110, Jazz 94
The Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz enter tonight’s TNT matchup in a very similar situation.
Both are coming off a loss at the hands of a Western Conference foe, as the Suns ran out of gas against Portland Tuesday night and the Jazz were dominated 110-88 in Denver Wednesday night.
But the parallels don’t [...]

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ValleyoftheSuns was founded exactly two years ago today as the Phoenix Suns were set to kick off the tumultuous 2008-09 season.
My how time has flown and this blog has evolved from a one-man show to a real team.
I’m proud of where we are. We had a productive summer building out the web site from the [...]

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