At first glance, I thought the Phoenix Suns were the clear loser of the blockbuster trade they swung with the Orlando Magic Saturday afternoon.
(In cased you’re late to the party, the Suns swapped Jason Richardson, Hedo Turkoglu and Earl Clark for Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, Mickael Pietrus, a 2011 first-round draft pick and cash considerations).
Carter [...]

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In a move that seemed to come out of nowhere, the Phoenix Suns on Saturday traded Jason Richardson, Hedo Turkoglu and Earl Clark to the Orlando Magic in exchange for Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, Mickael Pietrus, a 2011 1st round draft pick and about $3 million, according to a Suns release.
ESPN’s Chris Broussard, as well [...]

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The Phoenix Suns have been abysmal defensively all season, and they’ve been just as bad offensively in games missed by Steve Nash.
That trend continued tonight after Nash went down with a weird spinal injury four and a half minutes into Phoenix’s contest in Dallas after colliding with Tyson Chandler, as the Suns mounted little resistance [...]

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Dallas Mavericks 106, Phoenix Suns 91
At this point next week the Suns will have played four of the NBA’s top six teams in a matter of six days.
No teams have been more consistent than Dallas and San Antonio. Throw in the red-hot Miami Heat and the Kevin Durant-led Thunder and you’ve got yourself a stretch [...]

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When the Phoenix Suns signed Josh Childress, they envisioned him being a long, athletic defensive stopper as well as a ruthlessly efficient scorer.
Instead he’s barely hanging on to his rotation spot.
Childress was not signed to a five-year deal worth upward of $33 million to collect DNP-CDs like he did Friday against Minnesota or play single-figure [...]

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ESPN’s future power rankings have become an exercise in torture for Phoenix Suns fans.
For the fifth straight time since John Hollinger and Chad Ford started publishing this look into the future, the Suns ranked in the bottom fifth of the league, this time moving up a spot from the August rankings to No. 26 in [...]

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