PHOENIX — With the Suns trailing by two with three minutes left and the squads trading buckets left and right, Phoenix’s Sunday night game against the Houston Rockets seemed destined to go down to the final buzzer.
Then Steve Nash nailed a three. And then Channing Frye. And Jason Richardson. And Frye again.
Combined with some stops [...]

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The wins are coming so easily for the Phoenix Suns these days that the only surprise in their 116-105 win over the feisty New Jersey Nets was that the margin of victory wasn’t more.
The Nets outplayed a sometimes sluggish Suns team for three of the four quarters, but a dominant third quarter in which Phoenix [...]

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It took some bumps, some hiccups and some all-out effort, but the Suns finally found a way to beat the pesky Chicago Bulls and clinch a spot in the playoffs.
Having lost three straight to the Bulls, the Suns got an important win, 111-105, beating Chicago from deep and extending their season-high win streak to eight [...]

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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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