Dallas Mavericks 112, Phoenix Suns 106
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns have won seven of nine and 12 of 17 to make themselves players in a Western Conference playoff race that’s getting tighter by the day.
Now they can put the cherry on top of this stellar pre-All-Star break stretch by beating the second-best team in the [...]

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Update: We have our second winner of the day! Congratulations to Chris for winning the second pair of tickets, courtesy of StubHub. The correct answer was 32 points on March 14, 2007. Many of you submitted Nash’s playoff high of 48 points on May 15, 2005. Thanks to everyone for playing.
Valley of the Suns and [...]

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Update: We have a winner. Congratulations to Shane for submitting the first correct answer and winning two tickets, courtesy of StubHub. The correct answer was 18 games and the streak-breaking game occurred on January 28, 2010. Thanks to everyone for playing and get ready for another giveaway around 2 p.m.
Tonight the Phoenix Suns take on [...]

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The Phoenix Suns have been abysmal defensively all season, and they’ve been just as bad offensively in games missed by Steve Nash.
That trend continued tonight after Nash went down with a weird spinal injury four and a half minutes into Phoenix’s contest in Dallas after colliding with Tyson Chandler, as the Suns mounted little resistance [...]

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Dallas Mavericks 106, Phoenix Suns 91
At this point next week the Suns will have played four of the NBA’s top six teams in a matter of six days.
No teams have been more consistent than Dallas and San Antonio. Throw in the red-hot Miami Heat and the Kevin Durant-led Thunder and you’ve got yourself a stretch [...]

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In our final series of capsules, NBA bloggers prognosticate the Southwest Division:
Grizzlies:  Straight Outta Vancouver | SBN Recap
Hornets: At the Hive | Hornets247 | SBN Recap
Mavericks: MavsMoneyball | The Two Man Game
Rockets: The Dream Shake | SBN Recap
Spurs: Pounding the Rock | Project Spurs | SBN Recap

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