Bob Young is a freind of a relative so i hate to criticize him, but....yeah.....how about no?

Young's column is one of those dopey Page 2 deals where he typically cracks wise and writes columns consisting of imaginary conversations (e.g., "what if David Stern and Roger Goodell were sitting next to each other on an airplane?") and the like. It's not great sports journalism but the edgy, snarky, set em up and knock em down jokes is what a lot of sports journalism has turned into.

that said, he seems to be really making a case for hte Suns to be a factor and I just don't see it. ehh.

Holy shiat, the Clippers are going to be good this year!!!

That's like....wha? O_o

I always laughed when Uncle Phil got Will tickets for the Clippers games and Will acted esctatic as if it was the thing he ever wanted the most.


LOL must have been thinking "motherfarker....why not LAKERS tickets? Who the farks likes the Clippers?" XD

Silly Fresh Prince XD

The only way Phoenix can improve is by playing that damn gorilla mascot as their sixth man.

NBA seriously...

When over half your league can make the playoffs, the 14 teams who don't really suck.

I wish!

But no...the Clippers are a threat and the Lakers will win all their games thanks to Crybaby...I mean Kobe, and Dallas will get the ball rolling again.

Plus, if we couldn't do shait without Amare last year, I hate to see what happens this year

Did they plan on trading 2011 Steve Nash for 2003 Steve Nash?

Sports journalists are people too untalented to be athletes and too dumb to be real journalists.

I may be a fan of AZ sports teams, but god damn I hate basketball. Only a Suns fan when they're in the finals, so for a couple weeks back in 1993

So I was looking over the Suns roster/schedule just to see if there might be anything to this. Check out their January:

- 3 off days the entire month that aren't travel days
- Two back-to-back road/home dates (@Dal then home for Tor, and @Por then home for Mem) in the same week
- Four road games in 7 nights, @Sa, travel, @Chi, @NY, travel, @Bos

I know I know, they're getting paid millions and fly charter and stay in swank hotels and suck it up. But seriously, can you imagine putting in that kind of schedule just flying around sitting in meetings, let alone having Zach Randolph or Brendan Haywood knock you around for 48 minutes?

Simmons and others have been hammering the "young legs = wins" theme, to the point where I figured we might see the opposite, and veteran teams would have an edge. But I'm starting to buy it now. You don't really get a full appreciation for how brutal this schedule is until you see it laid out in calendar form.

...dude, it's the NBA. Unless your team can't beat the top college teams (I'm looking at you, Charlotte Bobcats), you're going to be in the playoffs.