Entries Tagged as 'Future'

A discussion on the Phoenix Suns’ offseason

May 6th, 2012 · 35 Comments

Editor’s Note: The following is a free-flowing conversation between Michael Schwartz and Kevin Zimmerman on the Phoenix Suns’ options this offseason.
Michael Schwartz: Two seasons ago the Phoenix Suns faced a franchise-altering summer and came away with a slew of overpriced role players after Amare Stoudemire departed.
The Suns are embarking on another critical offseason in which they [...]

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Phoenix Suns in no hurry to make a splash, plan on ‘disciplined’ approach to rebuilding team into a contender

May 3rd, 2012 · 41 Comments

PHOENIX — Lon Babby wants the Phoenix Suns to be an elite team.
To him, that defines a squad “that’s going to legitimately compete for championships every year.”
“That’s what we aspire to, that’s what we work towards every single day that we’re here,” he said.
In actuality, the Suns are a .500 team after consecutive seasons in [...]

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Reflections on the season and where the Phoenix Suns go from here

April 20th, 2012 · 8 Comments

Editor’s Note: The following is a lengthy free-flowing conversation between Michael Schwartz and Mike Schmitz on the state of the Suns.
Michael Schwartz: Right now all the Phoenix Suns can bother focusing on is the next game.
With three games remaining, they are two victories (if one comes in Utah) away from securing a playoff berth that even [...]

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Steve Nash won’t return to Phoenix ‘if there isn’t an improvement’

March 29th, 2012 · 53 Comments

Steve Nash sent a message Thursday that Suns management must have heard loud and clear: he will only return next season if Phoenix improves.
Nash spoke to everyone from Bill Simmons to Dan Patrick to Jim Rome as part of a Dove Men Care promotional media circuit and touched on a variety of interesting topics but [...]

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On Steve Nash’s loyalty and the Suns as a legitimate playoff contender

March 17th, 2012 · 22 Comments

A recent Paul Coro article reinforced the most interesting aspect of the Phoenix Suns’ trade season: the fact that Steve Nash rumors never came close to being a distraction.
During the week before the trade deadline we heard nary anything about the possibility of Nash being moved whereas Dwight Howard seemed to change his mind about [...]

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Dissecting the Phoenix Suns’ ESPN Future Power Rankings

February 10th, 2012 · 33 Comments

Prepare to wince, cringe, cry, or do whatever you may whenever the future looks dark.
Chad Ford and John Hollinger released their most recent NBA Future Power Rankings on Wednesday, and if you’re a Suns fan, you probably know what I’m about to tell you.
Let’s just say that if you went to a psychic and they [...]

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