PHOENIX — Enough scorers have enjoyed career seasons next to Steve Nash to question whether Marcin Gortat will be the same offensive player without him around.
Every Sun figures to take some kind of efficiency hit without Two Time, but no Phoenix player relied on him more to create easy buckets than Gortat last season, although [...]

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PHOENIX — Upon entering Monday’s media scrum, it took exactly five seconds before starting point guard Goran Dragic was posed a question with the words Steve Nash and big shoes attached to the end of it.
Like a politician trying to get out in front of a story before it became “the story” of Media Day, [...]

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Editor’s Note: TrueHoop Network contributor Brett Koremenos is a guest writer for ValleyoftheSuns. Follow him on Twitter @BKoremenos.
As Phoenix moves forward in the post-Steve Nash era, there will no doubt be changes to the on-court product. Nash, whose passing wizardry propelled Suns teams to topflight offenses for nearly a decade, will be replaced by his former understudy, [...]

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Steve Nash forced a trade to the Los Angeles Lakers. Ray Allen took less money to play for the Miami Heat. Charles Barkley was traded to the Suns’ bitter mid-90s rivals the Rockets, and Johnny Damon traitorously left the Red Sox for the Yankees.
This list could go on and on as time and again athletes have [...]

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If you were an NBA fan, a sneaker aficionado, or a television owner in 2007, you probably saw this commercial at least 30 times. This one-minute ad, intended to sell sneakers to the masses, was a seminal moment in NBA history. For Nike, it announced the launch of the Air Force 1 25th anniversary edition. [...]

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So our friends over at Warriors World published a list of the top 100 career earners in NBA history. It should come as no surprise that 18 former Phoenix Suns made the list (I’ve listed them all at the bottom of the page.) This large purple and orange contingent says a great deal about the [...]

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