PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns’ defense has been so good of late that only the Miami Heat have allowed a lower shooting percentage over their last 10 games entering Sunday.
So maybe that’s why the Suns felt like they would eventually string together a couple stops in the fourth quarter to finish a comeback that never [...]

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PHOENIX — The trio of Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum and Lamar Odom historically manhandles the Phoenix Suns on the interior.
So far this season, the Lakers are shooting 33-of-48 (68.67) at the rim against the Suns, while outrebounding Phoenix 95-75 in two meetings (one loss, one win).
Gasol is posting averages of 24 points, 12.5 rebounds, 5.5 [...]

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PHOENIX — If you want your son or daughter to learn how to play the point guard position, pop in the tape of Steve Nash Sunday evening against Washington. Two Time was downright transcendent.
Nash played the position about as well as you could play it, practically pitching a perfect game by scoring 20 points on [...]

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When the Suns got hot during the second half last season, they were practically invincible when they won the rebounding battle.
You could say the same thing about this year’s Suns, but the sample size is so small it hardly qualifies as a trend.
Still when you consider Phoenix’s offensive prowess and its ineptness on the boards, [...]

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Steve Nash won his first MVP award in large part because of how bad an otherwise spectacular Suns team was in his absence during the 2004-05 season.
Although I doubt Nash will ever be known as “Three Time,” the contrast between Saturday’s ugly loss in Charlotte and tonight’s pretty (offensively at least) 123-116 win over Houston [...]

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It all comes down to this.
We received 90 entries to our Phoenix Suns cufflinks contest, but thanks to the Suns’ porous three-point shooting outing Wednesday in Miami, only Eddie Kurtz and Ilan Shamos accurately prognosticated that the Suns would drill five super shots.  Eddie correctly added: “Although I hope that’s wrong. They won’t win with [...]

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