Denver Nuggets 138, Phoenix Suns 133
PHOENIX — The move has finally been made.
It’s been debated since the preseason and picked up a fevered pitch after Friday’s win over the Clippers when Hakim Warrick posted a Suns career high with 25 points and Hedo Turkoglu failed to score in 15 porous minutes.
And now Paul Coro has reported that [...]

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PHOENIX — When the Phoenix Suns acquired Hedo Turkoglu, they expected him to become a second facilitator to Steve Nash as well as a super stretch four spot-up shooter.
With a pair of five trey games and an overall three-point shooting percentage of 47.7 percent coming into Monday’s matchup with the Denver Nuggets, Turkoglu had done [...]

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Suns 100, Nuggets 94
The last time the Suns and Nuggets met, things got pretty ugly, and it wasn’t even the Nuggets’ best players.
But that was the preseason and the Suns have started to find their identity, or so it seems.
The Suns will get their first look at the likes of Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups [...]

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By all counts, the Phoenix Suns’ preseason finale against the Denver Nuggets on Friday night was over by halftime.
In their final tuneup before the season begins Tuesday, the Suns shot 30.8 percent in the first quarter and allowed 49 points in the second en route to an embarassing 144-106 loss.
At the midway mark, the Suns [...]

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NBA bloggers take a stab at the Northwest Division in this week’s capsules:
Jazz: SLC Dunk | Salt City Hoops | SBN Recap
Nuggets: Denver Stiffs | Roundball Mining Company | SBN Recap
Thunder: Welcome to Loud City | SBN Recap
Timberwolves: Canis Hoopus
Blazers: Blazersedge.com | SBN Recap
Recaps: All Previews

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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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