Phoenix Suns 86, Memphis Grizzlies 84 Coming off an embarrassing loss to the Portland Trail Blazers that reached lows not seen in a decade, the NBA scheduling folks gave the Phoenix Suns no time to recover. The Suns took a quick flight back to Phoenix, where they’ll play the Memphis Grizzlies tonight at 7 p.m. [...]

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When the NBA lockout finally comes to an end (be it tomorrow, Christmas Day, or June 30, 2012) every team with playoff hopes will have to ask itself, “What is our team identity?” For the Suns, identity has long been defined by their “Seven Seconds or Less” mentality. Put simply, “we will score so quickly, [...]

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For the second straight season ValleyoftheSuns is participating in the NBA blog preview series organized by Celtics Blog’s Jeff Clark, as you most likely know from our Suns preview earlier this week. As part of the project I will be posting links to team previews from other participating blogs to take a peak at the entire [...]

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PHOENIX — For three quarters the Phoenix Suns appeared to be sleepwalking through tonight’s matchup against Memphis, seemingly exhausted after playing last night in Portland with an off kilter shooting eye that seemed to be contagious. Trailing by 14 heading into the fourth, head coach Alvin Gentry had no choice but to unleash his much-maligned [...]

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Memphis Grizzlies 104, Phoenix Suns 98 OT Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns wore down late in Tuesday night’s game against a tough Portland Trail Blazers team. They turned the ball over nine times in the fourth, while giving up 37 points on the other end. Although Phoenix let that game slip away, there were [...]

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The Phoenix Suns were in a familiar spot, albeit a bit later in the game, trailing by 18 points a minute into the fourth quarter Monday night in Memphis. Just as they did during Friday’s epic comeback in Phoenix, Goran Dragic and the bench stormed back with a 13-2 spurt to cut the Memphis lead [...]

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