PHOENIX — The Suns may be entering a new era, yet the positives and negatives of Friday’s 104-93 home-opening win over the Portland Trail Blazers sure seem awfully familiar.
Phoenix shot its way to victory by drilling 10-of-20 treys and shooting 51.2 percent overall, thanks in large part to the open shots created by point guard [...]
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Phoenix Suns shoot their way to first preseason win just like old times
October 13th, 2012 · 15 Comments
Tags: Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Portland Trail Blazers · Three-Pointers
Phoenix Suns 125, Portland Trail Blazers 107 — Controlling their destiny
April 17th, 2012 · 43 Comments
PHOENIX — Tonight we learned what happens when a team in the midst of a massive tank job meets a team in desperate need of a win to vault into one of the top eight sought-after spots in the Western Conference.
With Nicolas Batum and Raymond Felton joining LaMarcus Aldridge on the list of unavailable Portland [...]
Tags: Offense · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Portland Trail Blazers
Preview: Portland Trail Blazers (28-33) at Phoenix Suns (31-29)
April 16th, 2012 · 10 Comments
Phoenix Suns 125, Portland Trail Blazers 107
After a brutal stretch of road games, the Phoenix Suns have returned home with a chance to move into eighth in the Western Conference standings. With a win tonight over the Portland Trail Blazers and a Houston loss to Denver, the Suns and Rockets would have identical 32-29 records. [...]
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#FreeSteveNash: ESPN’s big guns weigh in
February 5th, 2012 · 63 Comments
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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Portland Trail Blazers 109, Phoenix Suns 71 — Lost bar fight
January 27th, 2012 · 23 Comments
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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Preview: Phoenix Suns (6-11) at Portland Trail Blazers (11-8)
January 27th, 2012 · 12 Comments
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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