On a night of ugly basketball, the Suns were able to apply just enough lipstick to be the prettiest belle at the ball. Though the Suns set their season high in turnovers, they defeated Boston 79-71 on the fourth night of a five-game road trip for Phoenix.
Marcin Gortat (24) and Jared Dudley (12) led the [...]

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Phoenix Suns 79, Boston Celtics 71
Stability is the reason the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns have remained perennial playoff contenders.
It’s also a painful reminder that all good things come to an end.
The Suns, with dinosaurs in Steve Nash (37 years old) and Grant Hill (39), are off to a rough 5-9 start and, as [...]

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BOSTON — The Boston Celtics are widely known around the NBA as the baddest team in the land, and the Phoenix Suns stared them right in the eye without flinching Wednesday night in the TD Garden.
They did so both on the scoreboard, where they brought a 29-point second-half lead all the way down to eight [...]

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Boston Celtics 115, Phoenix Suns 103
When the Boston Celtics sauntered into US Airways Center back on Jan. 28, the Suns’ season seemed to be circling the drain.
Phoenix had lost three in a row in depressing fashion following a five-game winning streak that seemed to save their season and with tough home games against the Celtics, [...]

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Upon further review, the Suns’ defensive lockdown of the Boston Celtics Friday night was the team’s best defensive effort of the Steve Nash Era, according to research done by ESPN Stats and Info at my request.
I previously reported that the Suns posted an off the charts defensive efficiency of 71.7. ESPN Stats and Info uses [...]

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PHOENIX — Going into the season, Alvin Gentry expected to require the services of Grant Hill for something like 20-25 minutes per contest.
Instead he has played 30.4 minutes per game, including an average of 37.8 per game during the final four games of the Suns five-game win streak (he missed the first with a sprained [...]

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