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: 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 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 »
BY: ED COLE GLENDALE, Ariz. – It’s going to be another long offseason for Eric Bledsoe and the Phoenix Suns, after missing the playoffs for the fifth consecutive year. Now that Bledsoe’s got a year of full-time work under his belt, he can go to the break with a different mindset and different preparation for next season. “This offseason I’m ... Read More »
BY: ED COLE PHOENIX, Ariz. – It was a tale of two teams passing in the night: The Phoenix Suns were heading toward another mundane offseason, while the Los Angeles Clippers were still fighting for playoff seeding in their final regular season game on Tuesday night in Phoenix, Ariz. In the first half, it played out just like that. Los ... Read More »