It’s impossible to project the kind of financial flexibility the Phoenix Suns will possess this offseason and beyond before the new collective bargaining agreement is set.
So many options could potentially be on the table from rolled back salaries to an amnesty clause to a hard cap to the end of cap exceptions, all of which [...]

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PHOENIX — For the past seven seasons Steve Nash has been the sun, moon and stars of the Phoenix Suns franchise, as Lon Babby so often likes to say about him, and this year was certainly no different.
Despite playing through a myriad of injuries that head coach Alvin Gentry said would have led most NBA [...]

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PHOENIX — For the second straight year the Phoenix Suns enter a pivotal offseason that’s likely to reverberate throughout the next decade.
Last year’s much-ballyhooed Summer of 2010 was a total flop for Phoenix, a major reason the Suns went from the conference finals to the lottery.
They entered that crucial period without a general manager, and [...]

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BOSTON — During the Basketball Analytics panel at this weekend’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Mavericks owner Mark Cuban made the curious statement of saying when Dirk Nowitzki retires he hopes the Mavericks will be bad. Like really bad. Cleveland Cavaliers bad.
“The worst position you can be in the NBA is to be mired in mediocrity,” [...]

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By now we’re more than a week out from the blockbuster trade that changed our view of the Phoenix Suns, present and future.
I analyzed some of the issues surrounding how this affects the Suns’ future in the immediate aftermath of the trade, but now there’s been enough time and space for a further examination.
So far [...]

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Give the Phoenix Suns credit for one thing: they know know when to admit they made a mistake.
Today’s trade of Hedo Turkoglu, Jason Richardson and Earl Clark for Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, Mickael Pietrus, a 2011 first-rounder and cash marks admission that the Turkoglu deal — and really the Clark lottery pick while we’re at [...]

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