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02.22.09

A talk to last a week Suns News | (0)
This blog will be dormant for a week. It's my turn on the furlough rotation. Until then, here are some comments from Suns assistant Igor Kokoskov in a talk we had today about rookie point guard Goran Dragic. This was the first chance to interview Kokoskov because assistants were not permitted to do so under Terry Porter, who wanted there to be a single staff voice in regards to the team. Alvin Gentry has lifted that ban. Kokoskov, a native of Serbia and Montenegro, has coached nine years in the NBA and served three seasons under Gentry when he was the ...
02.21.09

Signs of life Suns News | (0)
We have the first signs of life on the orange planet. There is also the first dose of reality coming with the schedule. They will ease into it with Boston (minus KG, mind you), Charlotte, the Lakers and Toronto in the coming reunion week that will bring back Eddie House, Raja Bell, Boris Diaw, Shawn Marion and ... hold your applause to the end ... Marcus Banks. Then, say hello to march with Lakers and a four-game road trip to Orlando, Miami, Houston and San Antonio with a return home for Dallas and Cleveland. Saturday orange slices: * To reiterate some things on Amare Stoudemire's partially detached retina in his ...
02.20.09

Barbosa to start Suns News | (0)
The Suns will start Leandro Barbosa tonight and for the foreseeable future, bumping Jason Richardson to small forward and Grant Hill to power forward. The Hill matchup tonight seems fine with Jeff Green, a smaller power forward, but coach Alvin Gentry plans to stick with it even against the bigger front lines. "We're not a team that tries to adjust to other teams," Gentry said. "We're just going to play the way we play." Oklahoma City made a starting lineup adjustment too, putting Nenad Krstic at center instead of Nick Collison. "It should be a good game for the fans because they won't walk it ...
02.20.09

Stoudemire surgery fallout Suns News | (0)
Here is a summary of what was learned this morning after Amare Stoudemire underwent surgery for a partially detached retina today. THE INJURY: This was likely caused by what happened Oct. 1 as much as what happened Wednesday night. Boris Diaw inadvertently poked Stoudemire in the eye, partially tearing his iris in that right eye. Stoudemire has been having checkups ever since. The eye was bothering him some before Wednesday's game and he had just been drawing attention to it on the play before Al Thornton's dunk try, when Stoudemire tried to block it and again was struck in the eye by ...
02.20.09

Stoudemire out with injured eye Amare Stoudemire, Suns News | (0)
All the excitement from the run n' gun blowouts is now tempered with a bit a bad news. Amare had to have surgery for a partially detached retina and will miss up eight weeks. During his monster 42-point game against the Clippers, Amare appeared to have hurt the eye defending Al Thornton on a dunk attempt when Thornton hit him in the face with his left hand. I think we'll definitely see a return of the goggles when Amare returns. However a return this year means the Sun have to make the playoffs. Good thing they didn't trade ...
02.20.09

Whats that sound? Players | (0)
Just when you thought the Suns season was turning around too. It was announced this morning that Amare will miss up to 2 months and most likely the rest of the regular season. He sufferred a detached retina during Wednesday Clippers game.
02.20.09

Stoudemire out for the regular season Suns News | (0)
Suns All-Star power forward Amaré Stoudemire is expected to miss the rest of the regular season after undergoing surgery this morning to repair a partially detached retina in his right eye. Stoudemire could return to physical activity in eight weeks but a team press release said that would "depend upon his healing process" and that his surgeon, Dr. Pravin Dugel of Spectra Eye Institute in Sun City, stressed that recoveries are on a case-by-case basis. Eight weeks from today will be two days after the regular season ends. This is the same eye that kept Stoudemire out during training camp when Boris ...
02.19.09

No deals for Suns Suns News | (0)
The NBA trade deadline has passed and the Suns officially did not make any trades, although there was serious discussion involving Shaquille O'Neal. With much of the focus on a possible Amare Stoudemire trade in recent weeks, O'Neal ended up being the hottest topic today with Cleveland and Portland expressing interest. The Suns might have pulled off a deal with the Cavaliers, had they been willing to include Wally Szczerbiak's $13 million expiring contract with Sasha Pavlovic rather than Ben Wallace, who is still owed $14 million next season. ...read the rest of this post
02.18.09

Sprint to the finish line Alvin Gentry, Phoenix Suns, Suns News | (0)
Last night's game against the Clippers was X-rated. There are wins, there are blowouts and there are X-rated affairs like last night. It was enjoyable to see the Suns running and gunning again. Dropping a 140 spot on the hapless Clippers was a nice way to open the stretch run and hopefully send a message to the Western conference. At this point no one is picking Phoenix to do anything. B-Ball analysts are gloating for picking against the Suns and dissing Steve Kerr and Robert Sarver like they are Dumb and Dumber.At this point, I can't help but think about ...
02.16.09

Terry Porter: I’m out Phoenix Suns, Suns News, Terry Porter | (0)
Terry Porter has announced he's been fired as head coach of the Phoenix Suns. This may have been the worst kept secret over All Star weekend. It was accurately leaked on RealGm on Thursday, reporters were referencing that inside source by Friday, and TNT's Craig Sager jumped Shaq with that story during the game on Sunday. I went into Porter's failings in my previous post. What's bound to come out now is more stories about how Porter treated this team. He apparently wasn't well liked at all and had very questionable motivational methods. It is interesting what will be done ...

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