ValleyoftheSuns.com End of Season Chat

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With the help of former Mavericks stats expert Wayne Winston, I have been able to analyze the Western Conference Finals by looking at which lineup combinations are performing and which ones aren’t.
I learned that small ball was about the only thing that worked in the first two games of the series, and that Robin Lopez [...]

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PHOENIX — Jared Dudley was just finishing up explaining how Kobe Bryant is “arguably” the best player on the planet when Amare Stoudemire interjected his opinion from his locker next door.
“He is the best player on the planet,” Stoudemire said. “No doubt.”
Nobody who watched Game 6 would argue with Stoudemire’s assessment, as Kobe knocked down [...]

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Western Conference Finals Game 6

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Lakers 111, Suns 103

PHOENIX — For a team 48 minutes away from cleaning out their lockers for the summer, the Phoenix Suns are a confident bunch.
From the Nash Guarantee on down, the Suns’ players and coaches truly believe they will win tonight’s Game 6 and force a Game 7 Monday [...]

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PHOENIX — On one of the many days leading up to the start of the Western Conference Finals, I asked Jared Dudley how he felt about the national media not giving the Suns much of a chance in the series just as reporters hadn’t given Phoenix much of a shot all season.
Dudley said something very [...]

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