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TTron wrote: Green: Could he take another step this year and become a great player.

If he does well it will most likely have to be at small forward which he could not do well enough last year to put P.J. on the bench.

TheOriginalOriginal wrote:He will be priced out of what I'd be willing to pay him if he's as productive this year as he was last.

INFORMER wrote: P.J. remaining a starter was of no shortcoming on Green's part. P.J. became the permanent starting small forward because the Suns needed what he provided. Plus, Green's skillset was conducive to coming off the bench.

carey wrote:

INFORMER wrote: P.J. remaining a starter was of no shortcoming on Green's part. P.J. became the permanent starting small forward because the Suns needed what he provided. Plus, Green's skillset was conducive to coming off the bench.

Only Green played pretty poorly off the bench. His games as starting 2 guard were much better than the games he was 6th man.

It's time for Valley fans to escape Jerry Colangelo nostalgia
Paola Boivin, azcentral sports columnist 2:54 p.m. MST September 28, 2014

In the aftermath of the Jerry Colangelo ownership era, Ken Kendrick and Robert Sarver didn't stand a chance.

Not for immediate acceptance, anyway. Colangelo changed the Valley's sports landscape and did it with ease and an everyman trait. Kendrick, the Diamondbacks' managing general partner, and Sarver, the Suns' majority owner, were doomed from the beginning.

Both have made mistakes but both have grown, too. Ten years have passed. It's time for fans to move on.

Sports ownership threw both a curve.

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Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver applies lessons learned over 10 years
Paul Coro, azcentral sports 4:38 p.m. MST September 27, 2014

Ten years ago, the Suns were undergoing the second ownership change in franchise history when Jerry Colangelo weighed two leading bidders aiming to succeed him as the franchise's managing partner.

Colangelo knew more about Jeff Moorad, a baseball agent who had represented Luis Gonzalez and would later become a minority partner in replacing Colangelo's Diamondbacks ownership. Colangelo knew the other, banking and real estate magnate Robert Sarver, about as well as Sarver knew the NBA at the time — but Sarver's group bid had weight. With a then-record $401 million bid that later grew by a few million for success escalators, Sarver became the Suns' managing partner with nobody knowing what to expect.

A decade has changed Sarver's NBA expertise — about as much as how time has changed the three little boys in a 2005 Steve Nash MVP photo outside Sarver's office. The boys now are teenagers who grew up with the franchise, just as their father grew into it.

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Phoenix Suns' system pieces need fitting as camp begins
Paul Coro, azcentral sports 6:53 p.m. MST September 28, 2014

They are three rookies, one 2014 playoff participant and one 30-year-old.

They are seven guards, two sets of brothers and 10 returnees.

They are this season's Suns, a team that gathers today officially for the first time at US Airways Center with similar youth to last year but more familiarity for what is coming at Flagstaff training camp this week.

Between two-a-day conditioning at 7,000-foot elevation and a new system, the play at last season's training camp did not tell coach Jeff Hornacek that he had a 48-34 team on his hands.

"We had to go over and over things last year because it was all new," Hornacek said. "This year, we'll get into things quicker and be able to play more. We should be able to cover the little things. We did a great job of scoring last season, but now it's about the little things."

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carey wrote:https://twitter.com/DaveKingNBA/status/516592019826020352 Yep, as I said earlier, like it or not this is the team we will have going forward unless we're involved in some kind of trade.

Indy wrote:With 15 guys on our roster, I have a hard time believing that won't happen.

Coro: Zoran Dragic brings tough defense
Paul Coro, azcentral sports 9:14 p.m. MST September 29, 2014

Goran Dragic is looking forward to Suns basketball life with his younger brother but is not eager for practices with him.

He could not tell you whether Zoran is capable of beating him in one-on-one any longer because he avoids playing him.

"I don't want to play against him because now he's a little bit of a dirty player," Goran said. "He gives you elbows."

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Shabazz wrote:Smart way to structure the Morris contracts. A little more flexibility next summer, then a jump when the cap is expected to go up:

Also: https://twitter.com/EricPincus/status/516796985479680000

Shabazz wrote:How Zoran became a Sun:

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/how-zoran- ... hoenix-sun