PHOENIX — The perspective of Marcin Gortat’s value and success during the 2011-12 NBA season lie in two paradigms.
On one hand, there was his career-high averages of 15.4 points, 10 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game in his first full season with the Phoenix Suns, and he ended the year as the eighth-best NBA player [...]

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That’s it, that’s all folks.
Despite an improbable run to turn around what was once a 12-19 season, the Phoenix Suns’ playoff hopes are officially squashed after they fell to the Utah Jazz 100-88 in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night.
Thanks to a trio of monster double-doubles from Paul Milsap (26-15), Al Jefferson (18-16) and Derrick [...]

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Marcin Gortat scored the first 10 points of the game and Markieff Morris had a career-high 22 points as the Phoenix Suns dominated the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-83 Sunday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena. The Suns matched their season high margin of victory and shot 52 percent from the field as they finished their Eastern Conference [...]

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The Orlando Magic showed what an NBA team can do when left wide open for 48 minutes in a 103-93 victory over the Phoenix Suns Wednesday night in Orlando.
The Magic hit 11-of-23 from beyond the arc, including seven by Ryan Anderson, who had a team-high 29 points. Dwight Howard was dominant in the paint, scoring [...]

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Orlando Magic 103, Phoenix Suns 93
Marcin Gortat has gone from being the best backup center in the NBA to perhaps the best center not to make an All-Star Game in the 15 months since the Suns acquired him from Orlando in a six-player trade.
Gortat will return to the Magic Kingdom for the first time tonight [...]

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The Phoenix Suns played their best basketball of the season for 32 minutes before succumbing to an epic performance by the Oklahoma City Thunder in a 115-104 loss Wednesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena. The Suns led by 16 points with four minutes left in the third quarter. They had all the momentum and looked [...]

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