The 2022 NBA Finals begin Thursday night, and the No. 1-seeded Phoenix Suns — a juggernaut that won 64 games, steamrolled everyone else in the standings by eight games and appeared to be the title favorite by pretty much every measure — are nowhere to be found. It’s been almost three weeks since the Suns’ humbling, traumatizing, 33-point loss in…...
Last year in the NBA Finals, the Phoenix Suns lost four straight games for the first time all season, squandering a 2-0 series lead and falling short of the franchise’s first ever championship. This season, with a familiar but improved squad that won a league-best 64 games, they somehow found an even more disappointing way to go out. As Devin…...
DALLAS — For the better part of the season, the Phoenix Suns have had one of the more entertaining, eye-popping pregame routines in the NBA. Amidst all the amusing handshakes, mini dance-offs and general commotion, any spectators in the vicinity just before the Suns take the court have been transfixed by their bold pregame ritual. The specifics change, but at…
When the Phoenix Suns play like they did Tuesday night, they reach a peak that no other team in the NBA can match. They just haven’t done it consistently enough during these 2022 NBA Playoffs. For the second straight series, the Suns found themselves deadlocked at 2-2 through the four games. For the second straight series, they were met with…...
DALLAS — For the second time in these 2022 NBA Playoffs, the Phoenix Suns find themselves in a 2-2 dogfight. But after a second straight underwhelming performance on the road, they need to rediscover their identity on both ends of the floor. Game 3’s 103-94 loss to the Dallas Mavericks was easy to chalk up as an aberration. The Suns…...
“Golob” is the word of the day after Game 2. That’s Slovenian for “pigeon,” which is exactly what the Phoenix Suns turned Luka Doncic into Wednesday night. Make no mistake about it: Chris Paul and Monty Williams were hunting pigeon as ruthlessly and relentlessly as they have since Michael Porter Jr. in last year’s Western Conference semifinals. In a resounding…
Game 1 of an NBA playoff series can often serve as a feeling-out process between two opponents. Whatever the Phoenix Suns felt through the first three quarters of their second-round matchup with the Dallas Mavericks, it wasn’t resistance — outside of one Slovenian superstar, that is. Despite a huge night from Luka Doncic in the scoring column, the Suns led…...
Despite being the NBA’s top seed and winning a league-leading 64 games, the Phoenix Suns looked less like themselves during their first-round playoff matchup. Devin Booker’s absence for three games had a lot to do with it, but the New Orleans Pelicans tested them in that six-game series. Heading into the Western Conference semifinals, the Dallas Mavericks may be a…...
NEW ORLEANS — It was far more competitive than anyone expected, but the top-seeded Phoenix Suns closed out the New Orleans Pelicans with a 115-109 win in Game 6 on Thursday. Despite trailing by 10 points at halftime and playing in front of another roaring crowd at the Smoothie King Center, the reigning Western Conference finalists put away a scrappy…...
First things first: The Phoenix Suns aren’t winning a championship this year without a healthy Devin Booker. That much has become clear during their hard-fought first-round playoff series with the New Orleans Pelicans, which isn’t over yet by any means. But as the clock wound down in Game 5, with back-to-back dunks sending the Footprint Center into a frenzy, Mikal…
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