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Phoenix Suns 88, Boston Celtics 71 — Everything goes right

January 29th, 2011 · 44 Comments

PHOENIX — Nothing about Friday’s 88-71 victory over the Boston Celtics was typical of the Phoenix Suns basketball team we’ve seen all season.
The Suns blew out the Eastern Conference’s best team Friday night and held a comfortable working margin all game after dropping three in a row to mediocre East squads from Charlotte and Philly [...]

Preview: Boston Celtics (35-10) at Phoenix Suns (20-24)

January 28th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Phoenix Suns 88, Boston Celtics 71
PHOENIX — Lately, the Phoenix Suns have not been taking care of business against teams that they should. They might try taking a cue from the Boston Celtics.
The current Eastern Conference leader has gone 20-5 against teams below .500. In most years, the Suns wouldn’t fall into that category.
Friday’s game [...]

NBA blog previews: Atlantic Division

September 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Here at ValleyoftheSuns we focus pretty much all of our time on your Phoenix Suns. But there’s a whole league out there to preview!
For help with that I’ve joined up with 75 bloggers (it only seems like half of them are Celtics bloggers) in the fifth annual NBA Blog Previews organized by Jeff Clark from [...]

Suns rumors: Boston Celtics courting Leandro Barbosa

July 4th, 2010 · 40 Comments

It looks like the Phoenix Suns may have finally found a team willing to take reserve guard Leandro Barbosa and the $14.7 million that he’s owed over the next two seasons off their hands.
The Boston Herald recently reported that the Boston Celitcs are interested in Barbosa, as well as Rudy Fernandez, and could move Rasheed [...]

How the Celtics have slowed down the Lakers

June 12th, 2010 · 4 Comments

The Phoenix Suns clearly struggled to contain The Black Mamba and the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, but through four games of the NBA Finals the Boston Celtics have proven that the defending champs are far from unbeatable.
Against the Suns, the Lakers exhausted Phoenix’s 2-3 zone after a few sub-par games and Alvin Gentry [...]

Suns 116, Celtics 98 — No stars, no letdown

December 30th, 2009 · 8 Comments

PHOENIX — A couple months down the line when we look back on the Dec. 30 game on Phoenix’s schedule, “Suns 116, Celtics 98” will look much better than it was in real life.
The game notes say the Suns joined last year’s world champion Lakers as the only teams to sweep a season series from [...]