Oklahoma City 102, Phoenix Suns 90 As far as wins go, Saturday’s 97-81 shellacking of the Chicago Bulls might be as sweet as they come for the Phoenix Suns in 2012-13. The victory was the 2,000th in the history of the franchise, it snapped a five-game losing streak and a 12-game road losing streak, and [...]

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PHOENIX — For 47 minutes and 14 seconds, the Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks played an imperfect basketball game with the Knicks missing two of their best players and the Suns lacking their top dog for the second half. As so often happens in the NBA, particularly for a Suns squad that leads the [...]

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Phoenix Suns 121, Charlotte Bobcats 104 PHOENIX — The suddenly streaking Phoenix Suns will be aiming to win their fourth straight game after seven consecutive losses when the lowly Charlotte Bobcats come to town for a Wednesday night tilt fresh off 12 straight losses. In the process, the Suns hope to become the first Phoenix [...]

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Phoenix Suns 111, New Orleans Hornets 108 OT PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will host a struggling New Orleans Hornets team Friday night as they attempt to build on their best game of the year with their new rotation. This very well may have been the best time to implement such a change with two [...]

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PHOENIX — Alvin Gentry has reams of lineup data covering his desk, so he’s surely aware that the Suns’ old starting lineup was being outscored by about 40 points per 100 possessions over the course of the last six games. The Suns’ coaching staff has met for a few hours a day the last several [...]

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PHOENIX — Although the bench logged more minutes than might be expected, Phoenix Suns head coach Alvin Gentry treated Monday’s exhibition game against the Sacramento Kings as an opportunity to test out the rotation he plans to trot out when the games count. Thereby we learned that Kendall Marshall — who did not play by [...]

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