Amare collected more technical fouls than rebounds in the first half. (AP/Bill Haber) It would have been a stretch to expect anything but a loss facing a New Orleans Hornets team in their own backyard without Steve Nash and Shaquille O’Neal. You could say the Suns were better off defensively without Chris Paul destroying Shaq and Nash on a pick-and-roll at any point tonight, but without two of the team’s three most critical offensive players they were lucky to... 

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