The Phoenix Suns is a professional basketball team that is situated in Arizona. It is amongst the seven teams that are a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Its home ground is the US Airways Center that is located in downtown Phoenix where they play wearing purple, white and orange colored jerseys.
They debuted in 1968 as an expansion team and in their career that spans forty years they have recorded 17 fifty-win seasons, eight Western Conference Finals appearances, and two NBA Finals appearances in 1976 and 1993 losing on both occasions. They were formed by the former assistant coach named Jerry Colangelo.
The team featured talented players such as twin brothers Dick Van Arsdale and Tom Van Arsdale, the Hall of Famer Connie Hawkins, Len Robinson, and Alvan Adams. They had a brush with success during the 1970s. In 1976 they posted a finishing record of 42 wins and 40 losses and they followed with a surprise victory in the playoffs against the defending NBA champions, i.e. the Golden State Warriors.
They made it to the finals where they were eventually beaten by opponents the Boston Celtics. They were defeated in the sixth game by the Celtics. Whereas the 5th game is rgarded by several as the best ever game in the NBA history after it went into triple overtime. Things went well for them in the late seventies and the early eighties as they managed to record more than 50 wins. They had a finishing record of 41-41 at the end of the 1983-84 season. The team was led by Walter Davis and Maurice Lucas at that time.
The Suns were defeated by the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference championship series in six straight games. They acquired Charles Barkley in 1992 who successfully headed the team into winning 62 regular-season games. He was awarded NBA’s most valuable player award for that year.
Later during the 1993 NBA Finals, the Phoenix was defeated in 6 games by the Chicago Bulls. But despite these losses they kept performing well and managed to make playoff appearances in both 1994 and 1995. Some of the players of that time that are worth mentioning are Johnson, Danny Manning, Green and Wesley Person. After the franchise wrapped up the trade of Berkeley was made in the 1995-96 season.
In 2004, the team was bought by an investment group which was led by Robert Sarver. The team had a finishing record of 62-20. The team was headed by Steve Nash along with Amare Stoudemire and player Shawn Marion. Steve bagged the NBA MVP for the season 2004-2005 at the end of the season.
Further it managed to finish as the first seed in the Western Conference with the best record in NBA. It had an edge over the other teams in the playoffs with regards to the home court. The Suns met the San Antonio Spurs in the Western conference finals in which the spurs defeated the phoenix by winning the series at 4-1.
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