Suns 109, Grizzlies 95

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns have played just one game in the previous 10 days — and a stinker against Portland at that — so they better have rested up with a schedule that features six games in the next nine days coming up on the horizon right after the All-Star [...]

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Facing a significantly younger field, Suns point guard Steve Nash captured his second skills title in the Taco Bell Skills Challenge as part of All-Star Saturday Night.
“I asked them since I’m a lot older if I could start at the second rack,” Nash joked to TNT Cheryl Miller after the competition.
Nash cruised into the second [...]

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PHOENIX — This year’s rendition of the 3-Point Shootout features veteran NBA gunners in Paul Pierce and Chauncey Billups, young natural shooters who may have been shooting threes since they left the womb in Stephen Curry and Danilo Gallinari as well as last year’s defending champion, Daequan Cook.
So why should anybody give much of a [...]

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In a game in which Goran Dragic explodes for a career-high 32 points, Channing Frye busts out of his slump for 21 points in 28 minutes, Steve Nash dishes out 15 assists and the team knocks down 17-of-30 threes, the Phoenix Suns should undoubtedly walk away with a ‘W.’
But after pasting a ridiculous 45 points [...]

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After three straight losses, it was starting to seem like some changes were in order. Suns’ coach Alvin Gentry must have thought so, as he shook up the starting lineup Monday against the Grizzlies.
Robin Lopez started in place of Channing Frye and Leandro Barbosa started for Jason Richardson. But even with the changes — and [...]

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The months of November (12-3) and December (7-9) alone were enough to make a case that the 2009-2010 Suns have a serious case of split personality disorder.
The Suns’ Dr. Jekyll is a dominant, high-energy team that looks untouchable when it puts away the NBA’s best in teams like the Lakers, Celtics, Spurs and Magic. But [...]

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