Seasons of Discontent

Unless you live under some sort of bridge (in which case you’re probably a hobo…or a troll) you know that the Suns didn’t trade Amar’e Stoudemire at the NBA trade deadline.  Now Amar’e will be going into the summer with the opportunity to opt out of his contract and leave the Suns with nothing.  Of [...]

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Apparently this trade is close to happening.  If you’re not a big fan of clicking links I’ll just lay it out for you: Suns recieve: J.J. Hickson & Zydrunas Ilgauskas Cavs recieve: Amar’e Stoudemire On Friday night, Bright Side of the Sun touched on a possible deal that would bring Hickson and Big Z to [...]

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If you believe what you read in the papers (and I always do because the media has never lied…ever) the Suns really want Sixers swingman Andre Iguodala.  Apparently really, really bad.  Why you may ask?  Well he’s a pretty good all-around player – he can score, rebound, pass, and defend.  Not a bad combo right? [...]

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Well, well, well Phoenix-area professional basketball team – look what you’ve done.  If you’d asked me exactly a week ago if I thought there was any hope whatsoever for the 26-21 Suns as they played Dallas before heading off on a 4 game road trip (featuring 3 Western Conference contenders no less) I would have [...]

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Prior to last Thursday the Suns were 5-9 in January, coming off a pair of back breaking losses to Utah and Charlotte, and were looking to toss Amar’e Stoudemire out of town on the first train coming by that was offering cap space.  The run of being below average stretched as far back as December [...]

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The Suns are a bad basketball team.  They may be over .500 (26-21) and they may have 2 All-Star starters, but make no mistake – this is a bad basketball team.  Between the blown leads (8 double-digit blown leads this month), bad losses, and poor efforts the Suns have become really hard to watch.  So [...]

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If you’ve been following the rumor mill of late you’ll notice that the Suns appear to be stepping up their efforts to deal Amar’e Stoudemire.  Obviously nobody is going to be particularly surprised since the Suns have slumped to a 26-20 record after a 14-3 beginning to the season so the real focus has now [...]

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The Suns have a 11-15 record since December 1st.  Slice that no matter what way you want but it’s the very definition of below average basketball.  A weak 7-9 record in December was washed away by concerns over a tough schedule and wins over the Spurs, Lakers and (zombie) Celtics and with a softer January [...]

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As those of you who follow me on Twitter already know (@AZSportsBlog) I spent the weekend in Oakland for a wedding.  I left Saturday morning and returned Monday night so that means that I did in fact not watch the Cardinals second round playoff game with my normal crew of folks and I missed a [...]

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Due to the recent stretch of Suns games in which they’ve blown leads of 24 (Bucks), 13 (Heat), 16 (Rockets), 19 (Kings), and the team’s 10-11 record since December first I’ve begun to view the season with a bit more of my standard pessimism – and taking a peak at the Western Conference standings it [...]

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