The Suns have admitted they’re not a team with a lot of room for error. They didn’t play that way at Minnesota, attempting behind-the-back and no-look passes, proving that the Suns can indeed play loosely. Just not efficiently. Against one of the best defensive perimeters in the league (Ricky Rubio, Luke Ridnour and Andrei Kirilenko average [...]

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There’s no rule book on being a bad NBA team. It’s one reason for the ongoing discussion of tanking being a legitimate option or a sorry excuse for what used to be called “rebuilding.” The Phoenix Suns and especially president of basketball ops Lon Babby have maintained they are against it. And though they’ve done [...]

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Hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband because the Phoenix Suns are tanking out here. As Paul Coro reported from Utah prior to the Suns’ game against the Jazz, that the Suns front office was holding out point guard Goran Dragic against a Jazz team that can theoretically chase down the Los [...]

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PHOENIX – Often victims of one-dimensional offense and a lack of accountability on defense, the Phoenix Suns suddenly have found both. At a more microscopic level, the emergence of Wesley Johnson and Marcus Morris has led to the Suns’ three-game winning streak. Phoenix dropped the hot – in more ways than one – Atlanta Hawks [...]

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  When league experts pinpointed Jermaine O’Neal as on his way out following the Suns’ trade to acquire Marcus Morris, it made sense. O’Neal, after all, didn’t fit into what rebuilding Phoenix was attempting to do. Unlike most of the team, O’Neal isn’t young or even in his prime. He’s 34. He is banged up. [...]

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No Josh Smith, no Al Jefferson and nothing too notable. The Phoenix Suns were pretty conservative in their moves before Thursday’s trade deadline, and that’s OK. It’s what most of us hoped for with the new collective bargaining agreement pushing every NBA team away from scary-big contracts. Phoenix acquired Marcus Morris for a second round [...]

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