That’s it, that’s all folks.
Despite an improbable run to turn around what was once a 12-19 season, the Phoenix Suns’ playoff hopes are officially squashed after they fell to the Utah Jazz 100-88 in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night.
Thanks to a trio of monster double-doubles from Paul Milsap (26-15), Al Jefferson (18-16) and Derrick [...]

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Other than the Chicago Bulls, there is no hotter team in the NBA right now than the Phoenix Suns. Phoenix has won nine of its last 11 games and risen all the way to ninth in the standings – just a half game behind the Houston Rockets. The Suns have firmly entrenched themselves in what [...]

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We have spent a good deal of time discussing Wins Produced in relation to the 2009-10 Phoenix Suns on this site (to some disagreement), but before we move past last year I was curious to see what this stat had to say about the Suns’ run to the Western Conference Finals.
The first noteworthy observation is [...]

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… when the Suns were still in battle mode, fighting their hardest for a chance to play for an NBA crown.
Alas, they were eliminated by the now-world champion Los Angeles Lakers, and nothing has been the same since.
Three weeks ago the Suns were the story of the NBA, a little engine that could kind of [...]

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The Phoenix Suns clearly struggled to contain The Black Mamba and the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, but through four games of the NBA Finals the Boston Celtics have proven that the defending champs are far from unbeatable.
Against the Suns, the Lakers exhausted Phoenix’s 2-3 zone after a few sub-par games and Alvin Gentry [...]

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Although falling two wins short of reaching the NBA Finals for the first time since 1993 surely wasn’t how the Phoenix Suns wanted their season to end, the way they took the league by storm and exceeded everyone’s expectations was nothing short of spectacular.
The regular season was a roller-coaster ride full of highs and lows, [...]

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