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The sad tale of the Suns: once a shining star, now buried in irrelevance

SCOTT JACOBS
Sports run in cycles. For most franchises, tasting victory consistently is a hard fought process, that takes years of great drafting, deft trades, and savvy personnel at the top. It takes luck, skill, vision, facilities, and an owner committed to some kind of winning.
You don’t just luck into a championship. Titles don’t fall from [...]

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Superman Retires: The good, the bad, and the ugly from Shaq’s unforgettable career

One of the great big men in NBA history today hung up his enormous size 23 sneakers.  For better or worse he was as memorable as they come throughout his 19 year NBA odyssey

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He was larger than life.  Literally.  Shaquille Rashaun O’Neal  was the biggest, and still continues to be, the biggest person I [...]

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Dissecting Orlando’s Holiday season blockbusters

The Magic completely reinvented their team over the  weekend. Was it the right move or did they panic trying to keep up with the Celtics and Heat?

JOSH MASER
Special Contributor
The Orlando Magic have decided to completely overhaul their roster, with news coming in this past Saturday that they made two blockbuster trades with [...]

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Hey Mastermind Phil: 10 rings, but you can’t beat zone?

The Bostonian comedian goes after zone defense, college educations, Dick Motta, baseball and more in another classic sports rant
PAUL NARDIZZI
Kobe and the Lakers are now tied 2-2 with the Suns.  The Lakers, a team most NBA losers thought would roll to the Finals, are now in a dogfight that could go the distance.  The Lakers [...]

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Suns defy the critics, media in tying series up

With toughness and big time production from what had been an underachieving bench, the revived Suns head back to L.A. tied at 2, very much alive
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The Phoenix Suns waited three grueling games to see their much ballyhooed bench finally produce.
On Tuesday, their bench did more than that.  They outplayed the Lakers… starters, and set [...]

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Good grief, Suns finally rise to the challenge

Phoenix finally joins the series in a spirited game 3 win.  That’s Amar’e!
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En route to Phoenix I almost anticipated a breaking news story, reporting that the Lakers had changed their flight plans and were heading back to Tinseltown.  Afterall, the media had conceded them the series.  It wasn’t that they were up 2-0 heading [...]

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Sure Cleveland, you love Shaq now…

… but after the games are played, and the war of words are exchanged, will Cleveland’s latest saving grace be all that he’s getting hyped up to be: mainly the final piece for the Cavs to win a championship, not some washed up big name star holding on desperately to remain relevent and in the [...]

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Wayman Tisdale, 1964-2009

The College Basketball Hall of Famer fought cancer for two years, but today the disease took his life.  Tisdale was 44

JOSH DHANI
Today was a sad day as former Pacer great Wayman Tisdale was announced dead. Tisdale was a three-time All-American at Oklahoma, played twelve seasons in the NBA, and  after retirement even found success [...]

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