The Phoenix Suns played a terrible first half and shot just 40 percent from the field and half as well on threes on the second game of a back-to-back against an emotional Utah team playing without Jerry Sloan as their head coach for the first time since the late ’80s.
That certainly would have been the [...]

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Phoenix Suns 95, Utah Jazz 83
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will do something Friday night that thay haven’t done in 23 seasons: They’ll take on the Utah Jazz without Jerry Sloan coaching.
Sloan resigned Thursday amid reports that he and Jazz point guard Deron Williams had  clashed at halftime of the team’s Wednesday loss to the [...]

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PHOENIX — It took the Phoenix Suns four attempts, 23 games and 51 days, but they are no longer among the NBA’s losing ranks.
In a deja vu performance highlighted by another Steve Nash gem, the Suns crushed the Golden State Warriors 112-88 Thursday night, completing a back-to-back sweep.
“Well, we’re at .500,” Suns coach Alvin Gentry [...]

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Phoenix Suns 112, Golden State Warriors 88
PHOENIX — It’s been quite a while since the Phoenix Suns could call themselves a winning team and all recent chances they have had to relinquish a losing record have gone for naught.
Thursday’s matchup with the Golden State Warriors marks the Sun’s fourth opportunity to get back to the [...]

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PHOENIX — It’s no stretch to call the 2010-11 Phoenix Suns an enigma. From beating the NBA’s contenders to getting abused by the league’s worst, the Suns have seen it all this season.
On the heels of a five-game winning streak and an ensuing three-game losing streak, the Suns seem to have found a consistent level [...]

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PHOENIX — Marcin Gortat has finally been set free.
In a league of opportunity, Gortat had none the past three and a half seasons in Orlando, checking out of ballgames the second Superman was ready to return to action.
But Gortat’s stellar stretch of basketball the past three weeks stems from more than just getting a chance [...]

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