I’m often asked on Daily Dime Live chats about what trade the Suns need to make to vault them to contender status.
This one isn’t it, but the Suns did save a few more dollars by jettisoning seldom-used guard Alando Tucker to Minnesota with a conditional second-rounder and cash for Jason Hart, whose non-guaranteed contract was [...]

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In a not-so-surprising move, the Phoenix Suns today assigned rookie Taylor Griffin to the Iowa Energy of the NBA’s Developmental League.
The 6-foot-7 forward has only seen action twice this season. He has notched just two points, a rebound and a block in a total of 14 minutes on the floor (more than his brother in [...]

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You know it’s the preseason when you give up 37 one quarter and then just nine the next.
But what’s most disconcerting about the Suns’ crazy 110-105 overtime loss is that Oklahoma City’s rotation players outplayed Phoenix’s rotation players before the Suns’ deep reserves brought them back.
The Suns trailed by 20 points with just over eight [...]

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Is because we get pictures of ritualistic rookie hazing (the good kind only, of course), courtesy of none other than Mr. @JaredDudley619, and another reason I love Facebook is because we get video of that same night, courtesy of none other than Mr. Steve Nash’s fan page:

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A few months back, Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell debated the lost art of pressing in the NBA.
Both writers wondered why no pro team is willing to take a chance with the press these days in an era in which many college teams still run it.
Sure, you can say NBA athletes are too good for [...]

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The Phoenix Suns continued their predictable offseason on Monday by signing rookie forward Taylor Griffin.   The Suns inked their second-round selection in the 2009 NBA Draft (48th overall) to a partially guaranteed one-year deal for $457,588, according to The Arizona Republic.
The 23-year old, 6-foot-7 forward out of Oklahoma averaged 6.2 points, 3.0 rebounds and [...]

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