In Tuesday night’s overtime win over the Portland Trail Blazers, Deandre Ayton’s Herculean return to action was the big headline. And why wouldn’t it be? After missing two games with a non-COVID illness, and with the Phoenix Suns still missing Devin Booker on top of Frank Kaminsky, Abdel Nader, Jalen Smith and Dario Saric, Ayton put up a season-high 28…
Remember when the Phoenix Suns were 1-3 to start the new season and everyone wanted to hit the panic button? Boy was that silly! After Sunday’s 26-point win over the lowly Houston Rockets, the Suns notched their eighth straight win, improving to the NBA’s second-best record (9-3), fifth-best point differential (+5.7) and longest active win streak in the process. This…...
Two years ago, Frank Kaminsky was on the verge of being out of the league. Now, he’s playing meaningful minutes filling in for one of the NBA’s best two-way bigs on a championship contender. What’s more, he’s doing it so effectively the team has barely missed a beat. Even with the Phoenix Suns’ meteoric rise since the 2020 NBA bubble,…...
The Phoenix Suns wouldn’t be sitting at .500 right now without Frank Kaminsky and JaVale McGee. In Tuesday’s game against a New Orleans Pelicans side missing its two best players, with a first-year head coach at the helm, the Suns found themselves trailing by as many as 20 points in the first half. That they were able to turn it…...
The center position will look quite a bit different for the Phoenix Suns in 2021-22. Even if Deandre Ayton’s role doesn’t change as much as he wants it to, the backup 5 spot will feature a completely new look once DA takes a breather. Going from Dario Saric to JaVale McGee is quite a drastic change — in terms of…...
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