PHOENIX — Two 13th overall picks, two investments toward the future.
Markieff Morris and Kendall Marshall enter their first Vegas Summer League together, and as two marquee points of emphasis for a Phoenix Suns franchise on the rebuilding track, their experience and development are crucial to the success of the team as it moves past the [...]

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The NBA announced the schedule for the 2012 Las Vegas Summer League on Thursday. A record 24 of the league’s 30 franchises will field teams in this year’s exhibition. For the Phoenix Suns, this 10-day stretch in July will be the first step in a much-needed youth movement. At the center of that movement will [...]

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PHOENIX — One of the prominent themes of Moneyball centered around the inherent tension between old school scouts who have lived and breathed baseball all their lives and the geeks with their fancy algorithms that often tell a different story about a player.
As analytics permeate professional sports, that same discussion is going on behind the [...]

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PHOENIX — Markieff Morris isn’t one to make excuses.
Neither the fact of being a rookie nor having only a slim few weeks of training camp time were anything he could control, and looking back at the 2011-12 season, Morris knows that this offseason is monumental in terms of his career trajectory with the Phoenix Suns.
“I [...]

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Utah Jazz 100, Phoenix Suns 88
PHOENIX — Throughout the Suns’ wild ride to the precipice of a playoff berth, head coach Alvin Gentry has insisted he does not believe in “must-win” games because what do you tell your team if you lose?
“So if it’s a must-win situation today and we lose, do we not go [...]

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PHOENIX — Last year Suns rookie Markieff Morris endured the pain of being upset by a heavy underdog (VCU) in the Elite Eight.
This year he’s watched his Kansas Jayhawks play their way into tonight’s National Championship Game against powerhouse Kentucky, and Morris could not be more ecstatic about it.
“Man, you don’t even know how excited,” [...]

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