By: Kayla Mortellaro June 23, 2016 The Phoenix Suns selected 18-year-old Dragan Bender with the fourth overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. Bender, from Croatia, stands 7-feet tall and 225 pounds. His size and length fills a need on the Suns roster. From Bender’s power forward position, he played in 25 games in the Israeli Premier League for Maccabi Tel ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE PHOENIX – Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker will face off against seven of the best shooters in the NBA this Saturday night in Toronto, at the 2016 Foot Locker Three-Point Contest. He’ll go against the Warriors duo of Steph Curry and Klay Thompson, the Heat’s Chris Bosh, the Rockets’ James Harden, the hometown hero, Raptors guard Kyle ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE GLENDALE, Ariz. – The Phoenix Suns have failed over the last season-and-a-half because, in general manager Ryan McDonough’s words, they’ve “rushed the process,” in trying to keep pace with teams like the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder in a very competitive Western Conference. “They (Warriors and Thunder) built something slowly and painfully, and it took ... Read More »
By: Kayla Mortellaro PHOENIX— The Phoenix Suns 2015-2016 NBA season opener at Talking Stick Resort Arena in front of a sellout crowd of 18,055 people fell short of anticipation – with a 111-95 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. The evening started off with a great intro video produced by the Suns staff, which was followed by an energetic on-court introduction for all coaches ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE TEMPE, Ariz. — The word of the Phoenix Suns re-signing guard Brandon Knight swirled near and on the beginning of the NBA’s free agency period. The reports of a five-year, $70 million deal – the same deal fellow guard Eric Bledsoe got – came from every NBA expert who had a Twitter account. The team finally made ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE LAS VEGAS — What a difference two days made for the Phoenix Suns. On Sunday, they looked overmatched and were overmatched against the Houston Rockets. On Tuesday, they looked energized and refreshed against the Utah Jazz. Phoenix was able to jump out on Utah from the opening tip, and never let up on the gas pedal in their ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE LAS VEGAS – The Phoenix Suns didn’t want Devin Booker to leave Las Vegas without a contract, so they took care of that on Monday – their only day off from Summer League action – signing him to a deal. According to spotrac.com, Booker’s deal with the Suns is for two-years at $4,351,440 – all of it ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE LAS VEGAS — Throughout the Suns’ pre-Summer League practices this week, head coach Nate Bjorkgren stressed to his players the importance of playing solid defense, and how crucial that would be to their success at NBA Summer League. Evidently, the team took Bjorkgren’s words to heart, because they suffocated the Washington Wizards on Saturday, holding them to ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE TEMPE, Ariz. — Suns’ guard Jerel McNeal likes the makeup of their summer league roster. “I think it’s been great. I think it’s a really good mix of guys; some of the younger guys that were already here (along with) myself, obviously Devin (Booker) coming in as a rookie, and a good group of other guys who ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE GLENDALE, Ariz. – Mickey McConnell’s roots in Arizona run deep. He was born and raised and Mesa, Ariz., his father, Rick, coached him at Dobson High School, and for the longest, his grandfather, Dick, was the winningest high school basketball coach in the state at Tucson’s Sahuaro High School. McConnell had dreams of donning a Phoenix Suns’ ... Read More »