The Suns began a new road trip yet encountered a familiar problem Sunday night in San Antonio, as lack of crunch time execution prevented Phoenix from stealing a game in the Alamo City.
The Suns trailed by as many as 18 a minute into the second half, but roared back to cut the lead to five [...]

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San Antonio Spurs 102, Phoenix Suns 91
PHOENIX — Every team will face arduous stretches during this truncated season, but few will match what the Phoenix Suns will encounter the next week and a half.
The Suns will bounce around the country for five games in the next 10 days, going from Phoenix to San Antonio to [...]

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Thursday will go down as a day that shook the NBA world.
The lockout officially ended with the players and owners ratifying the new 10-year labor deal and a decent point guard with two first names made his way over to Los Angeles and then didn’t in a trade possibility that threatens to blow up Twitter.
Closer to [...]

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Last week we looked at Denver, Portland, New Orleans, and Memphis in terms of their team identity. You can read that column here. Today we’ll look at the rest of the Western Conference playoff teams and see what, if anything, they can contribute to the Phoenix Suns’ identity crisis.
Oklahoma City
The Thunder were last season’s team [...]

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For the second straight season ValleyoftheSuns is participating in the NBA blog preview series organized by Celtics Blog’s Jeff Clark, as you most likely know from our Suns preview earlier this week.
As part of the project I will be posting links to team previews from other participating blogs to take a peak at the entire NBA [...]

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PHOENIX — The 2010-11 Phoenix Suns have been nothing if not inconsistent, and that trait was on full display in their season finale Wednesday night against the Spurs.
The Suns stormed out of the gates with their best offensive quarter of the year by scoring 43 in the first before missing 14 shots in a row [...]

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