Eight hundred and twenty-one minutes. That’s the amount of floor-time Iranian big man Hamed Haddadi saw with the Memphis Grizzlies through his first four-and-a-half years in the NBA. That amounts to approximately 68 minutes per month, 16 minutes per week and 2.3 minutes per day against the best basketball players in the world. Haddadi didn’t [...]

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The Suns have admitted they’re not a team with a lot of room for error. They didn’t play that way at Minnesota, attempting behind-the-back and no-look passes, proving that the Suns can indeed play loosely. Just not efficiently. Against one of the best defensive perimeters in the league (Ricky Rubio, Luke Ridnour and Andrei Kirilenko average [...]

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Time: 7 p.m. MST TV: FSAZ When the Phoenix Suns lost center Marcin Gortat to a foot sprain against the Toronto Raptors two games ago, the offense sputtered. To be fair, expecting a refurbished offensive gameplan to come midgame from a coaching staff that in its own way lost depth and continuity – when Alvin [...]

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PHOENIX — Hamed Haddadi appears to be filling in nicely for Marcin Gortat and Jermaine O’Neal. Once viewed as a throw-in as the Suns sent off Sebastian Telfair and got a draft pick back, it’s a wonder if the Suns are simply using him because of the depth issues at center or if they view [...]

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