Editor’s Note: The following is a free-flowing conversation between Michael Schwartz and Kevin Zimmerman on the Phoenix Suns’ options this offseason.
Michael Schwartz: Two seasons ago the Phoenix Suns faced a franchise-altering summer and came away with a slew of overpriced role players after Amare Stoudemire departed.
The Suns are embarking on another critical offseason in which they [...]

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Join the ValleyoftheSuns team as we wrap up the 2011-12 season and look ahead to the offseason. Bring questions!

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PHOENIX — Lon Babby wants the Phoenix Suns to be an elite team.
To him, that defines a squad “that’s going to legitimately compete for championships every year.”
“That’s what we aspire to, that’s what we work towards every single day that we’re here,” he said.
In actuality, the Suns are a .500 team after consecutive seasons in [...]

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I feel bad for Amare Stoudemire.
Today he was rightly lambasted for being on the wrong end of a fight with a fire extinguisher, as The Wall Stree Journal so colorfully illustrates.
The resulting laceration of his palm likely ends his season two or three games early and puts the Knicks one more player down in a [...]

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PHOENIX — For the past eight seasons, Steve Nash has been the face of the Phoenix Suns franchise, and to borrow a phrase from Lon Babby, its sun, moon and stars as well.
But now for the first time since Jerry Colangelo swooped in with a take-it-or-leave-it offer as free agency commenced in 2004, Nash is [...]

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PHOENIX — The chants sprung up organically with about five and a half minutes left in a season and possibly a legendary Suns career, slowly building to a crescendo that resonated throughout US Airways Center.
“We want Steve, we want Steve, we want Steve!”
Fans leapt to their feet and even teammates Marcin Gortat and Shannon Brown [...]

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