Although it wasn’t quite as ugly seven years ago, the parallels behind Eric Gordon’s restricted free agency experience and what Joe Johnson put the Suns through in 2005 are prevalent.
Like Gordon today, Johnson was a fourth-year rising star shooting guard who made it very clear to Suns owner Robert Sarver that he did not want [...]

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Steve Nash’s move to Los Angeles has been the biggest story of free agency so far (with apologies to Joe Johnson, Deron Williams, Mikhail Prohkorov, and all of Russia). Nash has left Phoenix after eight memorable years to pursue a ring alongside Kobe, Gasol, Bynum, and the loveable Metta World Peace. But will this move [...]

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Well Suns fans, at least it wasn’t San Antonio.
Yet many Phoenix fans’ Fourth of July was ruined this evening when reports surfaced that the Suns will trade Steve Nash to the Los Angeles Lakers in a sign-and-trade involving multiple draft picks.
Nash will sign a three-year, $25 million deal and be absorbed into the Lakers’ trade [...]

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As the March 15 trade deadline approaches, the inevitable Steve Nash trade rumors will start swirling.
But while several teams will be tying up Lon Babby’s phone lines in pursuit of Phoenix’s star point guard, there’s another player the Suns should shop around in order to brighten their seemingly gloomy future.
Enter Robin Lopez.
The Suns used to think Lopez [...]

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As the Phoenix Suns seemed destined to spend this season in the NBA no-man’s land of “not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to contend for the No. 1 pick,” the #FreeSteveNash movement got some national attention this week. Prominent NBA analysts such as ESPN’s John Hollinger and Grantland’s Bill Simmons [...]

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PHOENIX — As much as Phoenix Suns fans don’t want to believe it, there will come a day without Steve Nash.
It may occur next season with an offseason trade, it may be the year after when his contract expires or it may not happen for another two or three years after that if he really [...]

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