If the NBA preseason is designed to be a dress rehearsal of the regular season, the Suns have likely been shown a reasonable facsimile of what lies ahead over the last month.
The Suns had at least two of their rotation players missing from each of their first seven preseason games. Amare Stoudemire missed five games. Leandro Barbosa missed four. Shaquille O'Neal and Steve Nash missed three each.
How often will that happen during the regular season? That's anyone's guess, but head coach Terry Porter isn't counting on a full boat very often—especially with an older roster that includes several players with a track record of requiring downtime as the games and the mileage mounts. "This is a long 82-game season, and I think the last two weeks are kind of a peek...
Phoenix Suns forward-center Amare Stoudemire dislocated his left pinky finger in the third quarter of Thursday's 102-93 preseason victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Amare Stoudemire scored 17 points before dislocating his left pinky and the Phoenix Suns, with their regulars together for the first time, beat the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder 102-93 on Thursday night . With the victory, the Suns (5-3) completed their fifth straight non-losing exhibition season and 19th in the past 20 years.
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