Archive: Professional

Alvin Gentry Refuses to Waste His Energy Thinking About the Future of Steve Nash

The Phoenix Suns and Alvin Gentry are in a pretty tough spot. On the one hand, the Suns are trying to win games; their goal coming into the season was to be a playoff team and Gentry has to find [...]

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Retorter’s Notebook: No Love Between Suns-Lakers

Kobe Bryant likes the Phoenix Suns about as much as Lady Gaga liked Adele winning Grammys. Which is to say, not at all. I’m not just making an assumption. He’s actually told the media as much. “I don’t like them,” [...]

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Ken Whisenhunt: “We’re in a heck of a lot better position at the quarterback position than we were a year ago”

Last offseason the Arizona Cardinals went out and made a bit of a blockbuster trade to try to land their quarterback of the future. The Cards traded a second round pick as well as a Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie for then 26-year-old [...]

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The Human Side of the Suns

Sports is escapism. We become fans of a team to forget about the day to day grind that is most of our lives. We live and die with the athletes. We over analyze their every move. We call for coaches [...]

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My Sunny Valentine

The Bulls are red. The Rockets are too. Unless you wear purple or orange though, I don’t care for you. I’m pretty sure that was the gist of the very first Valentine’s Day poem I ever wrote back in the [...]

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Suns Retorter’s Notebook: Et tu Barkley?

Et tu Barkley? I grew up idolizing Charles Barkley when he was a member of the Suns. Don’t get me wrong I didn’t view him as a role model. After his famous commercial I was too afraid he’d beat me [...]

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Suns Retorter’s Notebook: Et tu Barkley?

Et tu Barkley? I grew up idolizing Charles Barkley when he was a member of the Suns. Don’t get me wrong I didn’t view him as a role model. After his famous commercial I was too afraid he’d beat me [...]

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Morris Lobbies Sir Charles to Draft Him

Markieff Morris understands the way a draft works. After all, he was the Suns’ lottery pick this past season. He is fully aware that the GM drafts him. But Morris is looking to flip that concept on its ear by [...]

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Morris Lobbies Sir Charles to Draft Him

Markieff Morris understands the way a draft works. After all, he was the Suns’ lottery pick this past season. He is fully aware that the GM drafts him. But Morris is looking to flip that concept on its ear by [...]

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Former Sun to Speak at National Gallery of Art

If you’re a lifelong Suns fan you probably remember the small-in-stature guard with the larger-than-life socks who played for the team in the mid ‘90s. That guard was Memphis native Elliot Perry who was known for his love of tube [...]

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