PHOENIX — Pretty soon it’s going to start feeling like Groundhog’s Day for Josh Childress.
For the second straight season, J-Chill entered training camp with the expectation of being a rotation player. At training camp, he spoke of feeling much more comfortable in the Suns’ system and said he was ready to put his underwhelming inaugural [...]

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PHOENIX — For three months, the Phoenix Suns received the same kind of abysmal backup point guard play they have become accustomed to throughout the Steve Nash era, save for a Dragon sighting here or there.
Sebastian Telfair was so bad to start the season that Ronnie Price was handed the backup point guard reins and [...]

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PHOENIX — Everybody knows the Phoenix Suns need to improve.
But the question is with a bundle of cap space, a late lottery pick and no stars aside from a certain 38-year-old free-agent point guard, what do the Suns need to vault back into contention after a couple of seasons just outside the playoff picture?
Here’s what [...]

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This week we once again learned how difficult it is to come back from a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven NBA series, something only eight teams have accomplished in NBA history.
This year a whopping six teams found themselves in a 3-1 hole and two went home in Game 5, another two in Game 6 and [...]

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By the time I reached the end of my 1500-word odyssey on Suns advanced stats from Thursday, I still could not get over the impact Channing Frye has seemed to make on the offensive side of the ball the past three years, even in a supposed down year this season when the jump shooter shot 41.6 [...]

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Thanks to the NBA’s great new stats tool, today we will delve deeper into the 2011-12 Phoenix Suns’ season with the help of advanced stats.
The first half/second half offensive discrepancy
The simplest reason why the Phoenix Suns were so bad in the first half of the season and so good in the second half all boils [...]

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