PHOENIX — Before the season, the general consensus on the Phoenix Suns wavered between expecting them to miss the playoffs altogether for the second consecutive year or sneak into the postseason with one of the final spots.
Instead the Suns will be charging into postseason play with home-court advantage after throttling the Denver Nuggets 123-101 in [...]

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Suns 123, Nuggets 101

PHOENIX — The Suns’ official Big Dance doesn’t start until the weekend, but going along with that college basketball analogy tonight starts the beginning of their conference tournament.
Basically, the Suns have already clinched a so-called at-large berth, but how they fare tonight hosting Denver and Wednesday in [...]

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Before the season I figured the Western Conference playoff picture would feature a bunched-up group of quality teams.
But never did I expect the Phoenix Suns to be tied with three other teams for the No. 2 seed in the West as we enter the final turn of the 2009-10 schedule.
The long and short of these [...]

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Only in the Western Conference would the playoff seeding be completely up in the air, aside from the No. 1 spot, with just about 10 games remaining for each team. The Phoenix Suns currently sit in fifth place, but they are within arm’s reach of the No. 2 seed (two games back) and are only [...]

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PHOENIX — Excruciating losses to the Spurs are still commonplace, but times are a changing for the Phoenix Suns.
Playing an offensive powerhouse like the Denver Nuggets, the old Phoenix Suns would have needed a monster offensive effort from their starters to grab a win.
Instead it was defense and a stellar performance from their bench that [...]

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Suns 101, Nuggets 85
The Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets will collide tonight in US Airways Center both on the tail end of a back-to-back, with each team coming off losses to top-notch Western Conference teams. The Suns fell yesterday afternoon on the road against the Spurs, while the Nuggets are coming off a six-point loss [...]

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