Shaquille O’Neal waited until the very end of Inside the NBA to drop the bomb, when only die-hard NBA and TNT crew fans were still watching.
Barkley, O’Neal said, was “auditioning” for the Phoenix Suns general manager job.
The Big Spoiler managed to sneak in the words amid his sometimes unintelligible voice, a few words about his [...]

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PHOENIX — Channing Frye entered the penultimate game of last season in one of his patented shooting slumps.
The Suns’ big man had misfired on 30 of his previous 39 three-pointers and 52 of his 82 attempts overall entering the April 11 game versus Minnesota. So clearly something had changed for Frye when he shot like [...]

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The Phoenix Suns have been searching for their next star to no avail for some time now, but they do possess one important asset that could eventually solve that problem: future cap space.
I was updating the ValleyoftheSuns salary page the other day and it made me realize just how much future financial flexibility the Phoenix Suns [...]

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When Steve Kerr pulled the trigger on a trade that brought the Phoenix Suns one of the best big men in the history of the game, albeit in his older stages, he knew the deal would make him look like either a genius or a moron.
In hindsight that answer is obvious as Shaq only put [...]

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PHOENIX — When I used to cover baseball, I always used to dread walking into a losing locker room because it felt like a morgue, with only a player or two staying around to speak with the media in hushed tones and the rest of the clubhouse eerily silent.
That’s not a feeling I’ve experienced very [...]

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PHOENIX — Shaq, LeBron, Nash, Amare.
There’s a palpable excitement in US Airways Center this evening as the Suns get set to take on one of the NBA’s elite teams, the Cleveland Cavaliers, in a star-studded matchup.
“It should be fun to play against these guys,” Suns head coach Alvin Gentry said about an hour before tipoff [...]

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