As the Phoenix Suns seemed destined to spend this season in the NBA no-man’s land of “not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to contend for the No. 1 pick,” the #FreeSteveNash movement got some national attention this week. Prominent NBA analysts such as ESPN’s John Hollinger and Grantland’s Bill Simmons [...]

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In today’s NBA world a last-second shot often calls for an isolation for that team’s best player, a lower-percentage play than actually running an offense and getting off the kind of shot a team usually looks for.
I’m always surprised that a team will settle for a bad fadeaway that would not be tolerated in the [...]

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Phoenix Suns 110, Indiana Pacers 108 OT
Rise and shine, Phoenix.
Fresh off an easy 110-92 victory over Toronto to start off the East Coast swing, the Suns get back to action bright and early Sunday morning against the Pacers.
Newly acquired point guard Aaron Brooks is scheduled to make his Suns debut shortly after the game tips [...]

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PHOENIX — As he departed for the arena Friday afternoon, Channing Frye told his wife that the Suns had to win tonight’s tilt against the Indiana Pacers.
Then with his mother and college head coach in the stands, Frye went out and drilled five long balls (and had his toe on the line for perhaps three [...]

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Phoenix Suns 105, Indiana Pacers 97
The last time Indiana traveled to Phoenix, things got a little feisty.
In early March of last season, Channing Frye and Earl Watson got into an on-court skirmish that led to Frye and Danny Granger being suspended for a game apiece when Granger came in with a push.
The fight started when Watson [...]

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NBA bloggers take a shot at the Central Division in this week’s capsules:
Bucks: Brew Hoop | NBAMate | SBNation Recap
Bulls: Blog-A-Bull | SBNation Recap
Cavs: Fear The Sword | WaitingForNextYear
Pacers: Indy Cornrows
Pistons: DetroitBadBoys | Need4Sheed.com | SB Nation Detroit |
Recaps: All Previews

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