For the second straight season ValleyoftheSuns is participating in the NBA blog preview series organized by Celtics Blog’s Jeff Clark, as you most likely know from our Suns preview earlier this week.
As part of the project I will be posting links to team previews from other participating blogs to take a peak at the entire NBA [...]

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As Mark Cuban and Dirk Nowitzki celebrate deliriously, it’s time for us to face the unfortunate fact that it could be some time before we see another NBA game.
Come July 1, the NBA will lock its players out and it’s anybody’s guess when play will resume. The owners and players are far apart as things [...]

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Steve Nash’s odyssey for a championship is well known in these parts, but let’s not forget about his old running mate Shawn Marion’s quest now that the Matrix is four wins away from becoming an NBA champion.
Marion combined with Nash and Amare Stoudemire to form a devastating Big Three that perfectly fit Mike D’Antoni’s style, [...]

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The Suns’ season ended exactly two weeks ago at home against Dallas.
Or at least that’s when the team mailed in the rest of its schedule.
14 days later, it seems only fitting Phoenix would be dismantled by the playoff bound Mavericks in the Lone Star State.
The Suns were flat in all aspects Sunday afternoon, losing 115-90 to [...]

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Dallas Mavericks 115, Phoenix Suns 90
With the postseason out of the question, is there really much left to play for? Is it worth it to keep running the starters out there and playing them 30 or more minutes, risking injury?
Ask Suns coach Alvin Gentry or any player on the team and you’d almost certainly get [...]

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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns have been fighting an uphill battle since the season tipped off, trying to integrate a constant flow of new players while battling to create separation from a .500 mark that has never escaped them.
After the Suns’ 91-83 loss to the Dallas Mavericks even the Suns players were resigned to the [...]

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