PHOENIX — Amare Stoudemire and Dwight Howard both came into the league as supremely talented and athletic high schoolers who could dominate games with their tools alone.
Howard has grown into a dominant presence on the boards and the defensive end, but he doesn’t have much of an offensive game to speak of outside the lane. [...]

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Suns 106, Magic 103

PHOENIX — Having lost four of their last five, the Suns are in dire need of a win. Coming home may just be the answer to their recent woes.
With a 7-0 record at US Airways Center, the Suns are the only team in the NBA still unbeaten [...]

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Heading into the second game of this brutal five-game road trip, I was anxious to see how the red-hot Suns would perform against a member of the NBA’s elite.
Well, tonight Dwight Howard and the reigning Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic showed exactly why they were playing in the NBA Finals last season while the Suns [...]

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Magic 122, Suns 100
I kept rolling my eyes during Tuesday night’s game whenever the Heat and Suns were referred two as “two of the NBA’s hottest teams.”
They’ve only played three games each! And of their six opponents, only one (the Philadelphia 76ers, who the Magic beat a week ago) made the playoffs last season. Can [...]

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Shaq’s Suns have long since been eliminated from championship contention, the first time Shaq hasn’t reached the playoffs since he was a rookie, but there will still be major Shaquillian overtones at the 2009 NBA Finals, which start tonight in Los Angeles.
Will Kobe win his first title without Shaq and join the Big Aristotle and [...]

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Heading into the fourth quarter Tuesday in Orlando, the Suns more or less accomplished what they wanted to: Dwight Howard was in foul trouble all game, the Suns scored a bunch of hoops in seven seconds or less, Shaq was a force and Nash and J-Rich weren’t bad either.
They led the No. 3 team in [...]

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