PHOENIX — Well, at least they aren’t the Cardinals. On a day the Valley’s football team suffered its worst defeat in franchise history (and that’s quite an ignominious history), the Suns weren’t that bad but it felt that way nonetheless after their seventh straight loss, 98-90 to the Magic. The Suns played well in spurts [...]

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Orlando Magic 98, Phoenix Suns 90 Looking to avoid their first seven-game losing streak in nine years, the Phoenix Suns catch a break Sunday against the Orlando Magic. Jacque Vaughn’s team visits US. Airways Center to close out a five-game road trip, and with two losses in a row, the Magic appear to be in [...]

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It would be easy to say that the Phoenix Suns’ 115-94 loss to the Orlando Magic on Sunday was a sign that Alvin Gentry’s team is in trouble this season. Maybe that’s true. Still, it was easy to pinpoint the large, fixable problems that led to the Suns’ downfall in Florida. Context matters. The Suns [...]

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Orlando Magic 115, Phoenix Suns 94 PHOENIX — The first substitutions of the Phoenix Suns’ first two games coincided with large runs by the other team. The Golden State Warriors and the Detroit Pistons each used spurts that began toward the end of the first quarter to create large deficits that Phoenix had to make [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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