Advertisement - scroll for more content
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement - scroll for more content
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Bennett Durando: Cam Johnson on track to play tonight in Phoenix.
Still, Devin Booker is under contract in Phoenix through the 2029-30 season, when he’s due $67.9 million, and fans have started to wonder, given the minutes he’s logged, whether his best seasons are behind him. Although he averaged 26.1 points and 6.0 assists, Booker’s game slipped last season. More comfortable in the midrange, his 3-point accuracy dipped to 33 percent, among his career-low marks. Perhaps a bigger problem: As Phoenix’s primary playmaker, Booker often got caught between setting up teammates and probing for shots, when sometimes the right play was forcing his will.
Dalton Johnson: Steve Kerr to reporters in Phoenix when asked about coming back to where it ended last season when he had his arms around Steph and Draymond saying he didn't know what was next for him: "I was just kidding last year when I did that."
Anthony Slater: Steph Curry officially ruled out tonight in Phoenix for the Warriors first back-to-back. Right knee management. Brandin Podziemski and Al Horford also out. Draymond Green is doubtful.
Anthony Slater: Brandin Podziemski said he will not play tomorrow in Phoenix. So it sounds like the already depleted Warriors will also be without Steph Curry and Podziemski against the Suns. He missed the opener with a tweaked back.
Advertisement
PHNX Suns: NEWS: The Phoenix Suns announced they have waived forward Haywood Highsmith. Phoenix is also waiving guard Kennedy Chandler and forward Phillip Wheeler.
Jeff McDonald: No De'Aaron Fox tonight in Phoenix. Still experiencing "tightness," per Mitch Johnson. No long-term concern, just no reason to push it in these pretend games.
Sirius XM NBA Radio: “He’s gotta live up to the standards in Phoenix, and I’m excited for him to show that.” Suns owner Mat Ishbia talks to @Jumpshot8 about the addition of Miles Bridges
Advertisement
The largest exterior transparent LED display at a National Basketball Association arena has completed its installation in Phoenix, Arizona. Spanning the entirety of the plaza entrance at the Mortgage Matchup Center, the display is 69m wide by 12.5m tall, covering an area of 860 sq metres. The transparent mesh LED display from Absen has a a 60fps refresh rate and provides more than 17 million pixels.
Curry brought magic to LA in the Warriors’ first play-in tournament game, but momentum couldn’t be carried to the second game, where they fell to the Suns in Phoenix. “Hopefully we can be healthy and just have a chance to show what we’re capable of, myself included, missing so many games last year,” Curry said.
On falling short of NBA title in Phoenix with ‘Seven Seconds or Less’ Mike D'Antoni: “I just I think that we could have easily, you know, my first year there as a head coach (in 2004-05) or the third year (2006-07), won a championship. We had a really good chance, even the second year (2005-06) without Amar’e (Stoudemire), to get into the finals. I don't know if we would’ve won or not.”
ESPN: You were 21-40 in your first season as interim head coach in Phoenix. Second year, 62-20. Was it as simple as adding Steve Nash? Mike D'Antoni: I think that was the missing piece. We were young the year before. And also, I took over halfway through the year ... didn't really have a lot of time. [But] we were missing a point guard. And so when you plug into maybe the best point guard --- not maybe, but the best point guard in the league -- and you got Amar'e [Stoudemire] and you got Shawn Marion and Joe Johnson, and we added Quentin Richardson later, it was just a combination of those guys and Steve together that made that big jump. It surprised us. We didn't think we'd do all that. We were just trying to make the playoffs.