PHOENIX — When the Phoenix Suns went a bit out of their comfort zone to sign Channing Frye to a five-year, $30 million extension last summer, some felt it was an overreaction to a bloated marketplace that featured a handful of middling big men signing sizable deals.
After all Frye did enjoy a breakout season in [...]

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As the Memphis Grizzlies lead the San Antonio Spurs 2-1 and the New Orleans Hornets are deadlocked at 2-2 with the Los Angeles Lakers, all the Phoenix Suns can do is sit back and watch.
But as Suns fans watch the West’s lower seeds stir up the playoff picture, let’s reflect on the good, the bad [...]

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PHOENIX — Channing Frye had been suffering through an April to forget heading into Monday’s matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Frye averaged 8.5 points on 35.8 percent shooting from the field and 28 percent three-point shooting during the first six games this month, so of course it makes perfect sense that Frye would go berserk with [...]

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PHOENIX — Six years ago today Arizona suffered its worst collapse in program history in a game widely known as one of the best of the last decade, blowing a 15-point lead with four minutes remaining.
It’s amazing how much change the program has encountered in these past six crazy years before ending up right back [...]

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PHOENIX — In Mathletics, former Mavericks stats guru Wayne Winston found that playing on the second game of a back-to-back makes an NBA team play two points worse than average.
If only Winston could come up with a formula that would determine how much worse a team would be expected to play when its best players [...]

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There’s a reason they call this time of year March Madness.
The Suns and Lakers played a game as wild as anything we saw in the NCAA Tournament this weekend, with the Lakers finally prevailing 139-137 in triple overtime of a contest neither team deserved to lose.
In a game of twists and turns, this one turned [...]

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