PHOENIX — The Suns have lost to the Hornets, Cavs, Nets and Raptors at home, yet a couple minutes into the second half they seemed to be on a collision course with their worst loss to date, trailing the 3-20 Charlotte Bobcats by 10 points.
But the Suns’ starters erased that deficit by quarter’s end and [...]

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Phoenix Suns 95, Charlotte Bobcats 89
Typically, this preview would focus on the statistical differentials between the teams in various advanced metrics — offensive rebound rate, effective field goal percentage and the other Four Factors — but this isn’t a typical game. This is a clash between a Suns team that can’t seem to find any [...]

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PHOENIX — With the game no longer in doubt with 22 seconds remaining, one play typified the entire evening — and some would say the entire season — for the Phoenix Suns.
After the Charlotte Bobcats had already rebounded a pair of misses to milk a seven-point lead during a possession that started with 1:37 left [...]

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Charlotte Bobcats 114, Phoenix Suns 107
The Suns embarked on their recent five-game road trip looking to reestablish themselves as a playoff team while giving hope to a loyal fan base.
A 3-0 start to extend the team’s winning streak to five games gave those fans hope and seemingly a reason to not give up on the [...]

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Tied at 58 apiece with nine minutes remaining in the third quarter, the injury-depleted  Suns were hanging tough with a Bobcat team that swept them last season.
From that point, however, it was all Charlotte as the home team went on a 25-8 run to blow out the Suns, 123-105, scoring on its next 11 possessions.
The backbreaking sequence was [...]

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Bobcats 123, Suns 105
To say it’s been an up and down week for the Phoenix Suns would be an understatement.
One game they’re drilling a franchise-record 22 triples in a win over the Lakers, then following it up with a gutsy win against the Nuggets. But when competition ramped up and legs got tired, the Suns [...]

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