In a move that seemed to come out of nowhere, the Phoenix Suns on Saturday traded Jason Richardson, Hedo Turkoglu and Earl Clark to the Orlando Magic in exchange for Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, Mickael Pietrus, a 2011 1st round draft pick and about $3 million, according to a Suns release.
ESPN’s Chris Broussard, as well [...]

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Playing their fifth game in seven days, without Steve Nash, against one of the NBA’s biggest teams, one night after being blown out in Miami, the Phoenix Suns were never expected to blow past the Magic Thursday night in Orlando.
But even the Nash-less Suns have enough talent to at least put up a fight against [...]

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Magic 105, Suns 89
If a “soft” Chris Bosh exposed the Phoenix Suns for 35 points on 12-for-17 shooting, imagine what “Superman” Dwight Howard will do to Phoenix’s pushover front line.
One night after being blown out of South Beach by the Heat, the center-less Suns take on Howard and the Orlando Magic in what has to [...]

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It all comes down to this.
We received 90 entries to our Phoenix Suns cufflinks contest, but thanks to the Suns’ porous three-point shooting outing Wednesday in Miami, only Eddie Kurtz and Ilan Shamos accurately prognosticated that the Suns would drill five super shots.  Eddie correctly added: “Although I hope that’s wrong. They won’t win with [...]

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NBA bloggers prognosticate the Miami Heat and the rest of the Southeast Division in this week’s capsules:
Bobcats: Rufus on Fire | SBN Recap
Hawks: Peachtree Hoops
Heat: Peninsula Is Mightier | SportsAgentBlog.com
Magic: Orlando Pinstriped Post | Magic Basketball | Orlando Magic Daily | Orlando Sports Central
Wizards: Bullets Forever | Truth About It | SBN Recap
All Recaps

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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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