As the Phoenix Suns seemed destined to spend this season in the NBA no-man’s land of “not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to contend for the No. 1 pick,” the #FreeSteveNash movement got some national attention this week. Prominent NBA analysts such as ESPN’s John Hollinger and Grantland’s Bill Simmons [...]

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Bar fights are metaphors for basketball games.
Kevin Garnett made it so with his remarks following the Celtics’ 27-point, comeback victory against the Magic on Thursday. One well-documented, NBA-related bar fight fits this one perfectly.
In the Phoenix Suns’ 109-71 loss to Portland in the Rose Garden on Friday, the Blazers were indeed Charles Barkley. The Suns? [...]

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 Portland Trail Blazers 109, Phoenix Suns 71
The last time the Phoenix Suns played the Portland Trail Blazers, they ran Portland out of US Airways Center in a 25-point drubbing. The Trail Blazers will look to avenge their biggest loss of the season Friday night in the Rose Garden.
The Suns come into this matchup having lost [...]

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PHOENIX — Two years ago the Portland Trail Blazers needed to impose their style of basketball to have any chance in a playoff series against the Phoenix Suns.
On Friday night the Blazers did just that — yet the quicker pace only served to ignite a 102-77 blowout victory for the Suns.
“We had a better rhythm,” [...]

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Phoenix Suns 102, Portland Trail Blazers 77
The team with the best record in the Western Conference comes to Phoenix this evening, and the Suns’ defense will have its hands full.
It used to be that the Suns could be counted on to play at a breakneck pace and to do so effectively, but — so far [...]

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