PHOENIX — In Mathletics, former Mavericks stats guru Wayne Winston found that playing on the second game of a back-to-back makes an NBA team play two points worse than average.
If only Winston could come up with a formula that would determine how much worse a team would be expected to play when its best players [...]

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Phoenix Suns 114, Toronto Raptors 106
It’s hard to imagine any team coming back full strength less than 24 hours after what the Phoenix Suns went through on Tuesday night.
In what was, without a doubt, one of the most thrilling games of the 2010-2011 NBA season, the Suns fell in triple overtime to the Los Angeles [...]

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Vince Carter’s performance in the Suns’ 110-92 victory over the Raptors Friday night is the reason Toronto fans still shower him with boos every time he returns for a visit.
Carter looked like the Raptors version of himself, particularly in his stellar 11-point, four-rebound, four-steal first quarter that buoyed the Suns to a 35-14 opening period [...]

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Phoenix Suns 110, Toronto Raptors 92
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns have a fantastic opportunity in front of them, but only if they seize it.
With so much trade turmoil directly above them in the standing and a deal for Aaron Brooks that if nothing else should ensure their bench packs some punch the rest of the [...]

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Nobody said preseason basketball was important, but it continually becomes harder and harder to pull positives from the Phoenix Suns’ performances.
It is a learning process for the new-look Suns, but a lot of their weaknesses were exposed Sunday morning in a 121-100 loss to the Raptors in Toronto.
The Suns were murdered on the glass, 57-38, [...]

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Yes, preseason games mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, but wow. No matter the stakes, any 51-point blowout makes you raise your eyebrows a little bit.
In their second game against an NBA opponent this season, the new-look Phoenix Suns forgot to show up in Vancouver and were embarrassed, 129-78.
In what was supposed to [...]

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