The one story that won’t go away this season features this simple yet excruciating question: Will the Suns trade Steve Nash, and if so what can they get for him?
Every time they lose a few games — as the Suns recently did in dropping five straight — the Nash whispers will grow a little louder. [...]

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Last offseason the Phoenix Suns’ front office was criticized for lacking a plan when Amare Stoudemire left, instead throwing money at role players for the sake of spending.
No such charges can be levied against the Suns’ front office this offseason as all moves have been made with one goal in mind: maintaining 2012 cap space.
That’s [...]

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This past year NBA front offices were stuck in limbo in that they could only evaluate each potential decision based on the current system, not the system those decisions would end up impacting.
With the lockout all but over, those poor general managers now have a road map by which to base future decisions.
Now it’s time [...]

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Before the 2011 baseball season started, nobody gave the Arizona Diamondbacks much of a chance of finishing any better than third or fourth in their own division.
It made sense, as they were 27 games behind San Francisco in 2010 and 25 back of the Dodgers in 2009, and their offseason was more of an under [...]

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ESPN’s 5-on-5 series featured a look at the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday that will depress most any Suns fan.
I was joined by Scout Inc’s David Thorpe and TrueHoop Network colleagues Rahat Huq, Beckley Mason and Rob Mahoney for a five-pack of questions on the immediate and distant future on Planet Orange. They are as follows:
1. [...]

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Lon Babby has crunched the numbers, and rebuilding just doesn’t make sense.
According to The Arizona Republic, Babby and the Suns have determined that conference finalists that tear down and launch a “massive rebuilding project” take an average of a decade to get back to that level.
Such an analysis shows why Babby seems to prefer to [...]

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