The NBA announced marquee dates from the 2010-11 regular season schedule Tuesday, and the Phoenix Suns will be tested early with a Utah Jazz-Los Angeles Lakers back-to-back.
The Arizona Republic‘s Paul Coro reported, prior to the league’s one-hour NBA TV special (sound familiar?), that the Suns will open the season on the road against the Portland [...]

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… when the Suns were still in battle mode, fighting their hardest for a chance to play for an NBA crown.
Alas, they were eliminated by the now-world champion Los Angeles Lakers, and nothing has been the same since.
Three weeks ago the Suns were the story of the NBA, a little engine that could kind of [...]

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The Phoenix Suns clearly struggled to contain The Black Mamba and the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, but through four games of the NBA Finals the Boston Celtics have proven that the defending champs are far from unbeatable.
Against the Suns, the Lakers exhausted Phoenix’s 2-3 zone after a few sub-par games and Alvin Gentry [...]

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Although falling two wins short of reaching the NBA Finals for the first time since 1993 surely wasn’t how the Phoenix Suns wanted their season to end, the way they took the league by storm and exceeded everyone’s expectations was nothing short of spectacular.
The regular season was a roller-coaster ride full of highs and lows, [...]

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With the help of former Mavericks stats expert Wayne Winston, I have been able to analyze the Western Conference Finals by looking at which lineup combinations are performing and which ones aren’t.
I learned that small ball was about the only thing that worked in the first two games of the series, and that Robin Lopez [...]

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PHOENIX — Jared Dudley was just finishing up explaining how Kobe Bryant is “arguably” the best player on the planet when Amare Stoudemire interjected his opinion from his locker next door.
“He is the best player on the planet,” Stoudemire said. “No doubt.”
Nobody who watched Game 6 would argue with Stoudemire’s assessment, as Kobe knocked down [...]

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