Facing a significantly younger field, Suns point guard Steve Nash captured his second skills title in the Taco Bell Skills Challenge as part of All-Star Saturday Night.
“I asked them since I’m a lot older if I could start at the second rack,” Nash joked to TNT Cheryl Miller after the competition.
Nash cruised into the second [...]

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PHOENIX — This year’s rendition of the 3-Point Shootout features veteran NBA gunners in Paul Pierce and Chauncey Billups, young natural shooters who may have been shooting threes since they left the womb in Stephen Curry and Danilo Gallinari as well as last year’s defending champion, Daequan Cook.
So why should anybody give much of a [...]

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The Phoenix Suns are the only NBA team with two starters in the 2010 All-Star Game, but their involvement doesn’t stop there.
It was reported last week that Channing Frye would participate in the Three-Point Shootout, and it was announced Tuesday that point guard Steve Nash would compete in the Taco Bell Skills Challenge in Dallas [...]

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When watching the Phoenix Suns against a halfway decent team, every game seems like the next.
Run up a huge lead looking like world beaters. Blow it in the time it takes to get a cold one from the fridge. Stay close down the stretch only to fail to execute late in another crushing loss.
We’ve seen [...]

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One day after snapping a four-game losing streak by defeating the ever so powerful New Jersey Nets, the sixth-place Phoenix Suns received a moderately-expected piece of good news: Steve Nash will in fact join Amare Stoudemire in the West’s starting lineup.
Not the Lakers, not the Celtics and certainly not the one-star Cavs can claim two [...]

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Amare Stoudemire’s All-Star self-promotion campaign finished up today with his fourth and final video, “Baby Powder.”
You all know by now that Amare leads Andrew Bynum by about a gazillion votes, and surely the viral campaign had something to do with it (getting listed as the Suns’ “center” probably had more to do with it, though).
To [...]

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