Preseason is about the small victories.
Especially for a team like the Suns with so many new faces to integrate, it had to be encouraging that three crucial starters — Goran Dragic, Jared Dudley and Luis Scola — played so well together in the Suns’ 100-94 victory over the Dirk-less Mavs on Wednesday night in Big [...]

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PHOENIX — Leadership is a funny quality when it comes to NBA locker rooms. It isn’t necessarily dictated based on talent or the player with the loudest voice, although those can certainly be determining factors. It often isn’t appreciated when it exists, but it’s definitely noticed when it’s absent. It isn’t inherent in everyone, but as [...]

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PHOENIX — A overly-simplified version of the Big Bang theory says that the universe began with one event, from one dense point exploding to form the universe we know today. The chicken and egg debate argued that one, the other or neither acted as the starting point to life.
For the Phoenix Suns entering a new [...]

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PHOENIX — Jared Dudley’s career could be misleading because of his style.
Maybe it’s because while it feels like the Phoenix Suns guard has been in the NBA for a decade, he’s only finishing up his fifth year in the league. As one of the better — if not the best — quotes in the locker [...]

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PHOENIX — With memories of home losses to the Nets, Cavs, Raptors, Warriors and of course these very same New Orleans Hornets fresh in their minds, the Suns knew they absolutely have to take care of business tonight against the lowly, beat-up Hornets.
Against many teams the Suns would not be able to get away with [...]

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Basketball players have skill sets defined as refined or lacking. They’re given these by physical attributes, but also by mentalities that, when combined, create what we loosely refer to as their “game.”
The best basketball players — Kobe, Michael, LeBron — have a lot of really great physical attributes but, of course, they have mentalities that [...]

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