PHOENIX — Suns head athletic trainer Aaron Nelson would be the first to tell you that luck has played a role in the Phoenix Suns’ unprecedentedly healthy 2011-12 season.
As he said in my recent feature on the innovative methods the Suns’ training staff utilizes, the Suns do all they can to eliminate preventable injuries (and [...]

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PHOENIX — With the Phoenix Suns set to take on the Minnesota Timberwolves at 7 p.m. MST in US Airways Center, head coach Alvin Gentry weighed in on Ricky Rubio’s injury, the recent play of Jared Dudley and Robin Lopez, his NCAA Tournament favorite, and Peyton Manning’s basketball skills.
A look at Minnesota without Rubio 
On Saturday [...]

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PHOENIX — Entering tonight’s game the Phoenix Suns seemed positioned for a run out of the West’s dungeon, at least so much as that can be the case for a squad sitting in 13th in its conference five games under .500.
After all, Phoenix had just followed perhaps its best win of the season Sunday over [...]

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PHOENIX — Much has changed about the Phoenix Suns since Steve Nash signed as a free agent before the 2004-05 season yet one constant had remained: the Suns always beat the Toronto Raptors.
Not anymore.
The Suns’ longest active winning streak over a single opponent was snapped Tuesday night in Toronto’s 99-96 victory after the Suns had [...]

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PHOENIX — After the Phoenix Suns started off the season losing three of their first four games, there wasn’t a whole lot of panic coming out of the locker room. Even the shortened season is a long one they said, and the team followed up a 1-3 start in December with a 3-1 record in [...]

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PHOENIX — Count Alvin Gentry as a member of the Tim Tebow fan club.
The Suns’ head coach stepped to the podium for his postgame press conference Sunday night and immediately began gushing over Tebow’s sterling performance that led the Broncos over the Steelers this afternoon:
“I’d like to start this off by saying, to all you [...]

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