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United States Beats Tunisia 92-57 at FIBA World Championsh ...
1 day ago - azcentral.com
... (AP) - Eric Gordon scored points and the United States pulled away after a sluggish first half to beat Tunisia - Thursday in its final game of pool play at the world championship. With nothing to play for, the Americans sleepwalked through most of the early start, leading the winless team by only four points early in the third quarter before turning it into a rout over the final minutes. The U.S. (-), seeded first in Group B, next plays on Monday against Angola, the No. seed from Group A. The Americans misfired on nine of their -point attempts in the first half and ... Read More »
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Amar'e Stoudemire gets confused, works out with Suns
1 day ago - sports.yahoo.com
... has been a whole lot of player movement this offseason, obviously. Big names, small names, some as big as your head players be switchin' teams. So many changes were made that it's kind of hard to keep track of where everybody ended up. For instance, Ramon Sessions (notes) is on the Cavaliers now, which totally slips my mind every time I think about how bad Cleveland is going to be next season. It's easy to assume that the players ... Read More »
5. Former Phoenix Sun Neal Walk more than a trivia answer
2 days ago - azcentral.com
... correcting it. If left alone, who knows what would have happened? "I knew going in that I might come out rolling. That's what life's about. You make choices and live with the consequences. "OK, so now I have to sit in a wheelchair. Im kind of a lazy guy anyway." In Walk's era, virtually every team had a dominant center. Many are in the Hall of Fame. So for fun we asked for some of his favorite memories about them: " Wilt Chamberlain got his ,th point here in Phoenix and they stopped the game and gave him the ball. "When he walked back out on the floor he said, 'Hey young fella, ... Read More »
6. Phoenix Suns, Dwayne Jones reunite after reluctant parting
3 days ago - azcentral.com
... left Phoenix when the Suns traded him six weeks ago. Like a symbol of the Suns not wanting to let him go, Jones' car sat in his former Phoenix apartment complex lot until he was re-signed and returned Sunday. The Suns let the -foot- center go because his minimum salary with a second-year team option made him the right trade piece to send with Leandro Barbosa to Toronto for Hedo Turkoglu . Suns coach Alvin Gentry told Jones at that time that he hoped to get him back. Jones figured it could happen when Toronto did not call him for a week after acquiring him. Five weeks after the ... Read More »
7. The Summer of No. 23
4 days ago - nba.com
... I killed two birds with one stone. Netherlands was my pick, so I was rooting for them in the finals. There was just something about them that made you want to pull for them. They were the underdogs. They seemed to have all these old guys, who looked but were really . All of the final four teams were good, but with Netherlands, you were just sort of drawn to them. With one last family trip to Orlando to wrap up the summer, J-Rich will be back on the Suns practice court after Labor Day to prepare for the new season with the new-look squad. Thats part of the business, he said about ... Read More »
9. Hedo Turkoglu's World Championships Tracker
4 days ago - blogs.suns.com
... daily for updates here on how he and his country are performing at the competition. August - Turkey now stands at - in the FIBA World Championships after capturing a - victory over Russia on Sunday. Newly acquired Suns forward Hedo Turkoglu led the way for Turkey, registering a team-high points, but on just -of- shooting. Fellow NBA forward Ersan Ilyasova added points and boards for Turkey. As it stands, Turkey and Greece are atop of Group C with undefeated records. The two countries will face each other on Tuesday, August . August - The FIBA World ... Read More »
10. Goran Dragic's World Championships Tracker
4 days ago - blogs.suns.com
... guard Uros Slokar tallied points for Slovenia, which moved to - with the win. Slovenia sits just behind undefeated U.S. and Brazil in Group B play. August - In their second game of the FIBA World Championships, Slovenia drew the good fortune of running into a red-hot United States team, falling - to the reigning Olympic champions. Suns guard Goran Dragic managed only seven points and four assists on -of- shooting, while also turning the ball over three times. Slovenia was only able to register two players in double figures, while the United States saw five players hit ... Read More »
11. USA basketball defeats Slovenia for 2-0 start at Worlds
5 days ago - azcentral.com
... Durant scored points, Love added points and rebounds in a gritty minutes off the bench, and the Americans beat Slovenia - on Sunday in an opening-round game. "They did a great job of fighting, getting stops and making plays, and we know that we can't go out here and blow every team out," Durant said. "We had to make this a grind game and we did that, and a good job of keeping our composure." Rudy Gay finished with points for the Americans (-) , while Russell Westbrook and Andre Iguodala each had . Durant shot of before sitting out the fourth quarter and Love ... Read More »
13. Blanks Introduced as New Suns GM
9 days ago - nba.com
... at the Al McCoy Media Center at US Airways Center on Wednesday. We took our time, did our due diligence and settled on the perfect choice in Lance Blanks, Babby said. He met all of our criteria. He aced them across the board. Playing his collegiate ball at the University of Texas, Blanks and teammates Travis Mays and Joey Wright were known as the "BMW Scoring Machine" during the - basketball season, leading their squad to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. After graduating, Blanks was selected by the world champion Pistons with the No. pick in the first round of the ... Read More »
14. Time for hoop fans to care about FIBA World Championship
9 days ago - azcentral.com
... title so the belt he has is the one title that matters. The big difference is the U.S. has tried to win the World Championship, to varying degrees. It just hasn't been good enough since . The U.S. rarely fields its best offering of talent, as is the case again this year with the "B team" having no returnees from the Olympics' "Redeem Team." The U.S. has not even made the World Championship gold-medal game since , hitting rock bottom in with a sixth-place finish in front of sparse crowds in Indianapolis. "Other nations feel like this is the biggest basketball ... Read More »
15. Blanks a Fitting Choice for GM
10 days ago - blogs.suns.com
... few random thoughts from the Suns offseason: * As someone who covered the Cavaliers for NBA.com last season, I can tell you the Suns are getting a great guy in Lance Blanks, the teams new general manager. I really felt like Blanks was ready to run a team of his own after watching him under former Cavs GM Danny Ferry. Blanks worked was assistant GM in Cleveland for five years. He is a passionate basketball man and by all accounts, a sharp strategist. Hell fit in well with ... Read More »
16. Suns stock up on talent
11 days ago - sportingnews.com
... they were last year -- even without Amare Stoudemire. Even without Amare Stoudemire, coach Alvin Gentry says the Suns will be better than they were last year. Personally, Suns coach Alvin Gentry will miss Amare Stoudemire now that he is a Knick. Gentry was as close to Stoudemire as anyone on the team, and he was a big part of helping Stoudemire through the stress of trade talks that surrounded him the past two seasons. I love him, he knows that,? Gentry told SN. I knew it was possible he wasnt going to be here. I knew the market was such that all these teams had loaded up on cap money and ... Read More »
17. A Video Coordinator's Atypical Day
11 days ago - blogs.suns.com
... being a video coordinator may be the gateway into basketball operations for a professional basketball team, its also a staging ground for a litany of unique requests. By the time youve advanced into the front office or onto the coaching staff, youve pretty much seen or heard it all. Suns video coordinator Elvis Valcarcel is no different. In his two seasons in Phoenix, hes shuffled in and out of ... Read More »
18. Eddie House joins the Miami Heat, braces for the circus
13 days ago - azcentral.com
... braces for the circus Eddie House has been around the block. Now, he's joined the circus. He will report to the Miami Heat on Monday, forming alliances with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and others. One of the game's more likeable characters will begin assimilating with the most reviled team in the NBA. "I compare it to the year I went to Boston when the Big got together in ," House said. "But this is going to be even bigger. This is going to be Boston on steroids." For a role player, House already has enjoyed a remarkable ride. He made the ground shake in California, ... Read More »
19. Phoenix Suns president Lon Babby's life work prepared him
13 days ago - azcentral.com
... Partner Robert Sarver. Now, it all makes sense. He acquired a passion for sports from his father taking him to games. He became a leader and orator at summer camps. He joined a law firm founded by the Washington Redskins president, who later owned the Baltimore Orioles. Babby was on the defense team for John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan. When the Orioles were sold, a team executive - former NFL great Calvin Hill - asked whether Babby would represent his son, Grant Hill, and a -year career in athlete representation began. "I put my , hours in a lot of ... Read More »
20. Life of an NBA Video Coordinator
15 days ago - nba.com
... lives in US Airways Center as the Suns video coordinator. For those who are unfamiliar with the inner workings of a professional basketball team, the video room is essentially the nerve center for the coaching staff and for scouting opposing teams. It just so happens that Suns video coordinator Elvis Valcarcel is the king at attempting to keep all of those nerves in check. A New Jersey native, Valcarcel came to the Suns after serving ... Read More »
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