PHOENIX – The Phoenix Suns held the Washington Wizards to 15 points in the third quarter and 14 in the fourth. Closing games like that are recipes for wins but not on Wednesday night in U.S. Airways Center.
Washington trailed by seven toward the end of the first quarter but held the Suns without a field [...]

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The Suns would normally take 105 points as a great night. They would normally accept Michael Beasley’s 21 points on 7-for-12 shooting in 23 minutes as a much-needed lift.
Except Saturday’s game at Washington was anything but normal, not with Martell Webster hitting seven 3-pointers en route to 34 points. Not with Washington — the league’s [...]

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Basketball games are like boxing matches. Teams trade buckets like boxers trade jabs. A few times per round, one team lands a haymaker, and while that big play may not be a knockout blow, the big punches start to add up as the game wears on. Eventually the team on the receiving end of those [...]

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It was a nice touch that the Houston Rockets acknowledged the return of Luis Scola, and a fun storyline that Goran Dragic and Marcus Morris also returned to their old stomping grounds. But there are new faces in Houston. The home court for the Rockets added to the obvious revenge factor after Saturday’s 107-105 Suns [...]

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PHOENIX – The Suns own the worst three-point defense in the league. The Denver Nuggets didn’t do much with it.
It didn’t matter.
Corey Brewer scored 20 points, and outside of a Ty Lawson three-pointer in the final seconds, the Nuggets went 2-of-11 from long-range on Monday night in a 108-93 win against the Suns at [...]

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PHOENIX – It was Hamed Haddadi’s night, and point guard Goran Dragic had the best one-assist performance of his career. It was “weird night,” as Dragic said of his own game. Yet weird is the way of the NBA these days save for the traditional championship contenders.
On Saturday night against the Houston Rockets, there [...]

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