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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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PHOENIX — Here’s some paradoxical food for thought. Despite terrible shooting and the lack of a potent scoring threat on the roster, the Phoenix Suns have produced the game’s leading scorer in four of the first five contests. Only Russell Westbrook’s 18 points in Phoenix’s loss to the Thunder has led the top Suns’ scorer. [...]

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PHOENIX — Timing is everything in basketball. Cut or screen too soon or too late, and the offensive play crumbles. The Phoenix Suns, like every other NBA team, haven’t had much practice time — not even casual pick-up games — to construct well-timed execution, and that had a great deal of impact in their season [...]

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