PHOENIX — Now and again, it’s healthy to get a little nostalgic. Well, maybe that’s only partly true.
Because as I went to search for the so-called defensive glory days of Suns basketball, I found out that 2000-01 — the last time the team had a top 10 defense in the NBA — wasn’t all it [...]

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This week is a sad week for Channing Frye, but in some ways it should be a happy one.
It’s beyond terrible that Frye was blindsided with news that he has an enlarged heart that will likely keep him out for the season and could potentially end his career, news that Frye said came “completely out [...]

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With the dawn of a new era often comes a new head coach. 
A team full of fresh faces searching to recapture its winning tradition usually transitions toward a new head honcho hoping to take the organization to the promise land.  
But despite the fact that the Phoenix Suns welcome in seven new players as they [...]

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PHOENIX — When Goran Dragic visited the Suns as a free agent on July 4, the team’s front office sold him on something that had always been there.
Phoenix was his home, and home was where he could find his family, specifically head coach Alvin Gentry.
Officially introduced on Thursday afternoon as the successor to two-time MVP [...]

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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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