That’s the question we will all have to ponder if the NBA lockout wipes out the 2011-12 season and along with it the final year of Steve Nash’s Phoenix Suns contract.
Ever since Amare Stoudemire announced his plans to revive New York basketball, the question of what to do with Nash (and by proxy the rebuild [...]
Entries from November 2011
Did Steve Nash play his last game as a Sun?
November 21st, 2011 · 19 Comments
Tags: Lockout · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Analysis · Steve Nash
Aaron Brooks signs deal in China that could delay Phoenix’s decision on his RFA status
November 18th, 2011 · No Comments
Aaron Brooks made one Phoenix Suns offseason decision a bit easier (if there are any offseason decisions to make, that is) by agreeing to terms on a one-year contract with Chinese Basketball Association team Guangdong, as Yahoo! Sports first reported.
Brooks is expected to make more than $2 million to play for a squad that also includes [...]
Tags: Aaron Brooks · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Analysis
NBA lockout update: Games canceled, lawsuits filed, paychecks missed
November 15th, 2011 · 7 Comments
The NBA informed teams that all games through Dec. 15 have been canceled, according to an ESPN report, but really that’s more a function of the calendar than anything else since it will take about a month from deal to games.
The league’s proposed 72-game schedule would have started no earlier than Dec. 15 anyway, so the [...]
Tags: Lockout · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns News
‘Nuclear winter’ is upon us as players union disbands
November 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments
When the most important names in the 2011-12 NBA season are Kessler, Boies and Clement you know something went terribly, horribly wrong.
That’s the situation the league finds itself in now after the players disbanded their union and plan to file an antitrust suit against the NBA after years of negotiating blew up Monday afternoon.
It’s time for NBA [...]
Tags: Lockout
NBA lockout reaches critical week
November 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments
It’s hard to tell whether we are days away from the end of the NBA lockout or merely days away from the next round of cancellations and the decertification of the union (aka the nuclear option).
This week — the first week the players will miss a paycheck — will go a long way toward determining [...]
Tags: Lockout · Phoenix Suns
NBA blog preview links
November 13th, 2011 · No Comments
Perhaps it’s a bit premature to start previewing an NBA season that may or may not even happen, but now is the time to post links to all of the team previews completed in conjunction with Celtics Blog’s annual preview series.
We can only hope that these previews weren’t written in vain and that there will [...]
Tags: Phoenix Suns Preview




