90's Night

[The Bobster]

With 90's night coming up on 1/12 I was just wondering who everyone's favorite player and non-player for the Suns was in the 90's?

For Me....

Favorite Player: Kevin Johnson
Favorite Non-player: Cotton Fitzsimmons

[Ring_Wanted]

Jason Kidd.

[Superbone]

Favorite Player: Dan Majerle
Favorite Non-player: Cotton Fitzsimmons

[The Bobster]

Paul Westphal was/is was my favorite Suns player, but I would have to say for the 90s the three non-players to me were Cotton, Jerry and Al McCoy.

I listened to ‘Talk to the Suns’ (with Jerry) and ‘Talk to the Coach’ every week on KTAR starting with the John MacLeod era through the 90s and nobody was more honest and entertaining than Cotton.

[England Sun]

Started watching the in Oct/ Nov 1993. Sadly I missed the finals run due to programs not being shown often if at all in the UK. But luckily that meant the Suns were shown a lot that first season in the UK.
As many of you know most of my friends were Jazz fans due to the Utah connection, but boy did they bore me, and both Malone and Stockton were dirty players.
The Bulls were ‘meh’ for me. Jordan was great, but that team more than any other looked like a one man team
My favourite player was Barkley.....he had so much fun playing the game with KJ Et al.
Favourite non player, the medical staff.

[O_Gardino]

KJ and Al McCoy.

KJ played so fast and was such a threat to attack and that made the whole team have fun out there.

McCoy was/is the greatest orator in pro sports, man. Listening to him was like hearing the story of the game while watching. I felt like a kid hearing bedtime stories again. He's the reason my wife like bball and will watch the Suns with me. She has never cared about any sport at all, but she got so caught up in Al's voice that she started liking the games and rooting for the Suns on accident.

[Cap]

I loved rooting for KJ at the time, but have since come to understand that he is a pig.

So I'll go with Majerle. Great guy, still a part of the community, even after falling out with the Suns org.

[The Bobster]

I loved rooting for KJ at the time, but have since come to understand that he is a pig. So I'll go with Majerle.

Yeah, I think I learned that tough lesson with Walter Davis - you just have to separate what they do on the court from having admiration for them as a person. We really don't know these guys, even the ones who look like they're good citizens.

[The Bobster]

KJ and Al McCoy.

KJ played so fast and was such a threat to attack and that made the whole team have fun out there.

McCoy was/is the greatest orator in pro sports, man. Listening to him was like hearing the story of the game while watching. I felt like a kid hearing bedtime stories again. He's the reason my wife like bball and will watch the Suns with me. She has never cared about any sport at all, but she got so caught up in Al's voice that she started liking the games and rooting for the Suns on accident.

I was like a lot of kids growing up out here in that I was pretty fortunate listening to Al McCoy doing Suns games, Tom Dillon doing ASU sports and Vin Scully doing Dodgers games. It doesn't get any better than that.

Al is a bit more of a homer than Dillon or Scully were, but not to the extent where it detracts from his work (I'm looking at you Tommy Heinsohn!). He's a Suns' company man, but he doesn't see everything one-sided.

[Mori Chu]

I loved Barkley. I know he was a lout and wasn't here all that long. But the Barkley years captured my heart. I also loved KJ, Thunder Dan, and a lot of that crew. I had a soft spot for our 3-point bombers like Rex Chapman and Wes Person. Heck, we even had J-Kidd by the end of the '90s, right? He was a great Sun.

[In2ition]

Majerle and Cotton

[Ring_Wanted]

Oooh yeah, Rex Chapman. Also loved Uncle Cliff.

[Indy]

Non player is a tie between Cotton and Al. Although I went to my first game when I was 6 in '81/82, I didn't start watching the suns regularly/religiously until 88. You used to get family packs that you could buy at my elementary school office for like $20 for 4 tickets.

For the player, if you asked me 10 years ago I would have said KJ, hands down. And 2nd would have been Kidd, until what an awful human being he turned out to be. So I guess I will go with Dan.

[wpmiller42]

I loved watching Elliott Perry. He wasn't my favorite, that was probably Majerle, but I just thought Perry was so quick with the ball.

[Nodack]

KJ and Al McCoy.

KJ played so fast and was such a threat to attack and that made the whole team have fun out there.

McCoy was/is the greatest orator in pro sports, man. Listening to him was like hearing the story of the game while watching. I felt like a kid hearing bedtime stories again. He's the reason my wife like bball and will watch the Suns with me. She has never cared about any sport at all, but she got so caught up in Al's voice that she started liking the games and rooting for the Suns on accident.

Yep.

[The Bobster]

When you look at that 1992-93 team you could write a great book about the collection of personalities and the directions their lives have taken them - Colangelo (who moved on to USA Basketball and rebuilding the 76ers), Cotton (RIP), coaches Westphal & Hollins (who have had several Head Coaching and assistant jobs), Barkley (TNT), Ainge (Suns Coach, Boston Executive), KJ (Sacramento Mayor), Majerle (GCU Coach), Frank Johnson (Suns Coach), Dumas (drugs), Miller (food), Chambers & West (both back with the Suns) and even Mustaf (ungh).

[O_Gardino]

Please write that book!

[Indy]

When you look at that 1992-93 team you could write a great book about the collection of personalities and the directions their lives have taken them - Colangelo (who moved on to USA Basketball and rebuilding the 76ers), Cotton (RIP), coaches Westphal & Hollins (who have had several Head Coaching and assistant jobs), Barkley (TNT), Ainge (Suns Coach, Boston Executive), KJ (Sacramento Mayor), Majerle (GCU Coach), Frank Johnson (Suns Coach), Dumas (drugs), Miller (food), Chambers & West (both back with the Suns) and even Mustaf (ungh).

Too bad we don't know anyone that has experience getting basketball books published...

[Indy]

I loved watching Elliott Perry. He wasn't my favorite, that was probably Majerle, but I just thought Perry was so quick with the ball.

Agreed. I probably would have picked Socks as my favorite bench guy. And now that I am thinking about it more, I am going with Big Daddy as my favorite 90s player.

[England Sun]

One of the first Suns games I ever saw was where Socks made a late score and Barkley picked him up and ran down he court with him. It may even have been against the Bulls.
Anyone remember what game and when this was? It was The icing on the cake that made the Suns mine:)