PHOENIX — The Suns are about to tip off their final home game of the year, so of course the biggest news of the day was the Phoenix Mercury formally selecting Brittney Griner with the first overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft. Mercury coach and Suns player development specialist Corey Gaines addressed the media [...]

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Time: 7 p.m. MST

TV: FSAZ
Tonight will be a busy night of basketball viewing for Phoenix Suns’ fans. At 7 p.m. MST, the Suns will play their final home game of the year. They take on the Houston Rockets for what feels like the 50th time in the last month. But before tip off at the [...]

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I just downloaded the Vine app for my iPhone because, most importantly, I don’t want to lose touch with technology. Now, I’m not sure if it really has a use other than acting as a smoother and less creepy version of Snapchat, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.
Suns guard Diante Garrett, currently on assignment [...]

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The Suns have admitted they’re not a team with a lot of room for error. They didn’t play that way at Minnesota, attempting behind-the-back and no-look passes, proving that the Suns can indeed play loosely.
Just not efficiently.
Against one of the best defensive perimeters in the league (Ricky Rubio, Luke Ridnour and Andrei Kirilenko average a combined [...]

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Time: 5:00 pm MST
TV: FSAZ
Three more games and the 2012-13 season is just a bad memory for the Phoenix Suns. Three more games, and this team can begin to move forward; something it hasn’t really done all season.
Ever since the preseason optimism surrounding the Suns wore off, it has been very clear that this year [...]

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There’s no rule book on being a bad NBA team. It’s one reason for the ongoing discussion of tanking being a legitimate option or a sorry excuse for what used to be called “rebuilding.” The Phoenix Suns and especially president of basketball ops Lon Babby have maintained they are against it. And though they’ve done [...]

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