PHOENIX — There are so many unwritten rules in sports that if they were actually written out they might rival Bill Simmons’ Book of Basketball in length.
Tonight in US Airways Center we saw two of them play out: take matters into your own hands when somebody takes a cheap shot at you and always have [...]

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PHOENIX — Goran Dragic will miss tonight’s game with a sprained right ankle, and with Leandro Barbosa already out that means Steve Nash will be the team’s only option at the point guard spot.
“We pay Nash a lot of money, he can go 48 minutes,” head coach Alvin Gentry joked.
In all seriousness that means Grant [...]

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PHOENIX — Back in November, the Suns beat the Raptors in Phoenix when Channing Frye got just far enough up in the face of Hedo Turkoglu to force a miss on a potential game-winning shot.
It was symbolic of that month as a whole: even when the Raptors got the matchup they wanted in the clutch, [...]

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PHOENIX — When legendary former Arizona basketball head coach Lute Olson visits US Airways Center to cheer on his former center Channing Frye, it must be strange for him to watch the college post player jack up 12 threes, as Frye did with Olson sitting in the second row on Wednesday against Houston.
“He gives me [...]

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The 2009 portion of the NBA season is in the books and the Phoenix Suns currently sit in third place in the Western Conference at 21-12. After starting off December with a 5-9 record, the Suns bounced back by capturing a pair of convincing wins against the league-best Los Angeles Lakers and the injury-riddled Boston Celtics.
In [...]

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PHOENIX — Suns forward Jared Dudley is really something else.
The self-described man with no hops rose up to block Lakers 7-footer Andrew Bynum thanks to impeccable “timing,” and then on the ensuing jump ball Dudley spun around to steal Bynum’s tap, an illegal move but one that seemed to confuse the refs more than anything.
“How [...]

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