Phoenix Suns 92, Detroit Pistons 75 PHOENIX — Marcin Gortat punctuated one of his poignant quotes after Wednesday’s defensive shellacking at the hands of the Philadelphia 76ers by remarking that things can’t get any worse. We will find out if they actually can when the Suns take on the woeful Detroit Pistons Friday night to [...]

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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns have played some awful defensive games over the years, but Wednesday’s 123-110 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers does not have many rivals in futility. This was a Sixers team that had not won a game all season when yielding at least 99 points (0-14), a team that averaged 87.3 points [...]

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PHOENIX — The Vince Carter era is upon us, as Alvin Gentry announced an hour before game time that Carter will not only play tonight but also start. The Suns gave thought to getting him acclimated off the bench but ultimately decided against it. “He’s going to be a starter, so there’s no reason not [...]

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Philadelphia 76ers 123, Phoenix Suns 110 PHOENIX — Suns coach Alvin Gentry and 76ers coach Doug Collins go way back. Most notably, Gentry took over for Collins in Detroit as the Pistons’ coach late into the 1997-98 season. But the relationship goes back further than that. “I knew his son Chris when he was in [...]

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PHOENIX — 11 days after trading away its leading scorer in Jason Richardson, Phoenix is about to get back some of the departed offense. Hello, Vince Carter. Hampered by a nagging knee injury, Carter hasn’t played since Dec. 14 when he dropped 18 in Denver for the Magic. Fast forward more than two weeks and [...]

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Karen Frye grew up with four brothers in New York in a household where the television set was perpetually tuned to a Giants, Jets, Yankees, Rangers or Knicks game. Then she spent years schlepping her oldest son Channing to basketball practices and games, following him on road trips up and down the Pac-10 and eventually [...]

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