PHOENIX — The Suns brought US Airways Center to Grand Canyon University Arena Wednesday during the squad’s annual intrasquad scrimmage that broke up the monotony of training camp drills.
GCU looked and sounded like a typical Suns game with their game operations staff and cheerleaders entertaining the crowd in what is an extra exhibition game for [...]

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Steve Nash isn’t the only Sun to play another sport for charity this offseason.
Channing Frye staged his second annual Kick for Kids kickball tournament Saturday in Portland, raising close to $25,000 for the Oregon Active Foundation and The Frye Family Foundation, according to Jessica Duffaut from The Giving Back Fund. Those charitable organizations focus on [...]

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Although Tristan Thompson’s PAWS 40 numbers do not impress, John Hollinger’s Player Rater ranks him as perhaps the steal of the draft.
Hollinger slots Thompson third overall on his big board thanks to a 16.21 rating that bettered any other prospect in the class (Hollinger still has Irving and D-Will above him, though).
Hollinger notes that his [...]

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PHOENIX — Before the season tipped off, Suns head coach Alvin Gentry proclaimed Robin Lopez would be the second most important player for the 2010-11 Phoenix Suns.
As it turned out, he was barely the second most important center on the roster.
It’s startling to think how far Lopez’s star has fallen from last year at this [...]

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We’ve looked at the good and the bad, and now it’s time for the meat and potatoes of what went wrong for the Phoenix Suns this past season. There were clearly no shortages of disappointments, but here are the three developments that made Suns fans turn off their TVs in disgust:
Hedo Turkoglu’s PF career
When Turkoglu [...]

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