Sacramento Kings 113, Phoenix Suns 108
The Suns were embarrassed in their first game of 2011.
Up 14 in the fourth quarter in Sacramento, Phoenix squandered its big lead and allowed the conference’s worst team to pull off the comeback, 94-89.
The Suns fell to 14-18 on the season and would go on to lose two more games [...]

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Phoenix Suns center Marcin Gortat said after last Wednesday’s loss to the Philadelphia 76ers that “it can’t get worse.”
The brutally honest statement could be challenged after the Suns (14-18) fell to the NBA-worst Sacramento Kings on Sunday night, 94-89.
What looked like another defensive night for the Suns after one quarter slowly fell apart and collapsed entirely [...]

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Sacramento Kings 94, Phoenix Suns 89
As long as Kings point guard Tyreke Evans isn’t hitting half court shots, the Suns should be able to make it two straight wins Sunday night.
It literally doesn’t get worse than the Kings.
Sacramento got a rare (fluke) win Wednesday over the Grizzlies and fell to the Nuggets on Saturday, but [...]

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PHOENIX — Do you remember the day your first son was born?
It probably was one of the most memorable days of your life, the kind of day you can still remember the most miniscule details of.
Steve Nash lived that day on Friday when Matteo Joel Nash, weighing seven pounds and seven ounces, was born into [...]

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Suns 103, Kings 89
PHOENIX — It’s hard to classify the eighth game of an 82-game schedule as crucial.
But after glancing at the Suns’ upcoming schedule, that’s exactly what Friday’s game is.
Next week Phoenix plays two sets of back-to-back games against arguably four of the top 10 teams in the NBA (Lakers, Nuggets, Heat and Magic).
But [...]

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The worst thing one can do when evaluating a preseason game is to just glance at the final score.
So “Kings 109, Suns 95” doesn’t do this one justice.
The Kings played this one with largely regular season rotations, whereas the Suns played it like it was, well, the first game of the preseason.
Playing many of their [...]

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