2011-12 Season

Steve Nash knew he was going to the public’s focal point this season when it came to coverage of the Phoenix Suns during the 2011-12 season. So game-in and game-out, the 16-year NBA veteran stood before the media to give his straight-forward, polit...

As if my Twitter handle @orange_crusader wasn’t an indication of this enough, I am not only an admitted comic book geek, but one who embraces that geekness. To maintain some level of coolness over the years (and to avoid wedgies), I have also prese...

The legend goes that Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León traveled to Florida in search of the fountain of youth. There may be a reason he never found it. It seems like he had the right idea to search in a place with great weather that what would one...

Dustin Watson doesn’t subscribe to the theory that talking about a streak will end it, at least not with the run he’s currently on. Members of the Suns might feel otherwise once they hear the details of Watson’s impact on the outcome of their g...

The Dan Majerle Hustle Award is presented to the Suns player who fans, the players themselves, coaches, employees and Majerle himself feels embodies the determination, passion and hustle that “Thunder Dan” personified as a player during his illus...

Heralded as the “Original Sun,” Ring-of-Honor member Dick Van Arsdale unveiled some of his original artwork for a very special event on Wednesday night. During halftime of the Suns-Thunder game, Van Arsdale presented his former coach, John MacLeo...

As this is being typed, there are five teams with three games of each other for the final three playoff spots in the Western Conference. It’s not unlikely that two or more of the teams vying for a playoff berth end up with identical records when th...

Alvin Gentry doesn’t have a short memory. That’s why he’s hoping that this Portland Trail Blazers team is a lot different on the court, as it is on paper, compared to the team that beat the Suns by 38 points back on January 27. “I hope they d...

Posterize A Basketball term meaning to embarrass someone usually while slamming the ball over them. It refers to the guy who’s being dunked on in basketball posters. That’s the definition given by Urban Dictionary for the term posterize, but the...

They say behind every great man is a great woman. In the NBA there should be a similar adage: Behind every great starting lineup is a great bench, at least if you hope to succeed. The Suns have been the benefactor of just that over the last month of...

It couldn’t have been an easy transition for Markieff Morris to learn the NBA game this season, although his recent play has indicated otherwise. Consider that Morris has had all of this on his table as a rookie in the 2011-12 season: an uncertain...