Phoenix Suns 95, Utah Jazz 83
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will do something Friday night that thay haven’t done in 23 seasons: They’ll take on the Utah Jazz without Jerry Sloan coaching.
Sloan resigned Thursday amid reports that he and Jazz point guard Deron Williams had  clashed at halftime of the team’s Wednesday loss to the [...]

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Phoenix had every opportunity to blow another big lead Thursday.
Anybody who has watched the Suns for the past few years might have gotten that same eerily familiar uneasy feeling in their stomachs.
Up 18 midway through the third quarter and seemingly cruising to an easy victory, Phoenix allowed Utah to run off 11 straight points to close the gap [...]

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Suns 110, Jazz 94
The Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz enter tonight’s TNT matchup in a very similar situation.
Both are coming off a loss at the hands of a Western Conference foe, as the Suns ran out of gas against Portland Tuesday night and the Jazz were dominated 110-88 in Denver Wednesday night.
But the parallels don’t [...]

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Although Thursday night’s contest was played indoors, unlike the Suns’ Oct. 10 preseason victory over Dallas, Phoenix sure seemed to let it rain in the second game of the team’s home and home series with the Jazz.
The Suns fired up 21 three-pointers but only connected on six en route to a second consecutive loss to [...]

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PHOENIX — If NBA preseason games are good for anything, it’s gleaning where a team is set and where it still needs to improve.
Tuesday night’s preseason home opener displayed that few things are actually “set” for the Phoenix Suns as they fell 105-100 at the hands of the Utah Jazz.
Now, there is no reason to [...]

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NBA bloggers take a stab at the Northwest Division in this week’s capsules:
Jazz: SLC Dunk | Salt City Hoops | SBN Recap
Nuggets: Denver Stiffs | Roundball Mining Company | The Nugg Doctor | SBN Recap
Thunder: Welcome to Loud City | Planet BBall | SBN Recap
Timberwolves: Canis Hoopus | TwolvesBlog
Blazers: Blazersedge.com | SBN Recap
Recaps: All Previews

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