PHOENIX — In many respects Friday’s game against the Lakers felt like a playoff game. Heck, that notion was even written on the whiteboard in the Suns’ locker room before the game.
With Los Angeles being in town on a Friday night, the fans were jacked up during pregame introductions and the Suns started the game [...]

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PHOENIX — With an accident on the 51 on my way to the game tonight, I almost felt like I was stuck on an LA freeway. As I arrived to my usual parking garage I noticed parking was about double what it normally is. And as I walked to the stadium I noticed a disturbingly [...]

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Lakers 102, Suns 96
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers.
Just naming Friday’s opponent makes the blood of Phoenix fans boil.
This time a battle with the defending champs will double as a litmus test type of game in which the Suns can compare themselves with the best in the West after running off [...]

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Phoenix Suns center Channing Frye has been suspended without pay for Friday’s game against the Lakers for throwing a punch at Pacers forward Danny Granger during an altercation in Saturday’s game, NBA executive vice president Stu Jackson announced today. Granger was also suspended for fighting with Frye. Here is an excerpt from a statement by the NBA:
The Indiana Pacers’ [...]

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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns entered the season as a team with a chip on its shoulder, a disrespected squad out to prove that the reports of its demise were greatly exaggerated.
They played team ball, they rebounded by committee and they at least made an effort to play defense during the first month of the [...]

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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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