What a difference a day makes. The Phoenix Suns reminded us all how good a well-earned victory feels as they defeated the Dallas Mavericks 102-91 at the American Airlines Arena.
Last night, the Suns lost in gut-wrenching fashion to the Houston Rockets on a last-second goaltend. Had that defeat, their tenth in a row, caused a [...]

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Phoenix Suns 102, Dallas Mavericks 91
TV: FSAZ
Tonight’s game in Dallas puts the Phoenix Suns’ last 12 months in seriously harsh perspective. A little less than a year ago, the Suns were a .500 team trying to make an unexpected playoff run after a disappointing start to the season. Ultimately that push came up short, but [...]

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What keeps the Phoenix Suns from contending is not their ability to play top tier basketball. Their back-to-back victories over the Kings and Clippers showed they can win games and play at a high level. What stands in the Suns’ way is consistency. The team’s lack of consistency was on full display Sunday night. Phoenix [...]

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Mavericks 110, Suns 95
TV: FSNA
My how the mighty have fallen.
Unlike Saturday night’s contest against the San Antonio Spurs, the Phoenix Suns’ final stop on their Texas two-step down memory lane comes in Dallas against an equally downtrodden Mavericks squad.
In fact, there’s very little remaining from the good ole’ days to get nostalgic about 2005 and [...]

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The Phoenix Suns organization put together quite an evening at US Airways Center Thursday for “Satisfaction Guaranteed Night.” The in-game entertainment was lively, the concession lines were packed and the 17,517 fans in attendance (a season high) seemed to be enjoying themselves for much of the night.
The only problem was the on-court product didn’t match [...]

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Dallas Mavericks 97, Phoenix Suns 94
There was a time when a Mavericks-Suns game was a marquee matchup, the kind of game routinely picked for a Thursday night nationally-televised showdown.
Instead tonight TNT might wonder what it was thinking to pit a Dirk Nowitzki-less Mavs team that has lost four of five after being crushed late last [...]

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