Duane Rankin
Phoenix Suns Beat Reporter at The Arizona Republic
Award winner covering Phoenix #Suns @azcentral. News tips: [email protected] https://t.co/h3YwJn95uI https://t.co/PYndGhbPed #GoHerd #SJI30
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2 days ago |
azcentral.com | Duane Rankin
The Phoenix Suns really don’t have a lottery pick in next month’s NBA Draft. No, really, they don’t. The Suns ended the 2024-25 season with a 36-46 record and failed to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2019-20 season , but they traded away their 2025 first-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets when landing Kevin Durant in a blockbuster deal before the 2023 trade deadline. The Nets then traded the pick to the Houston Rockets last summer.
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2 days ago |
azcentral.com | Duane Rankin
Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas opens up about his 50-game suspension during the 2009-10 season in Netflix’s Untold documentary, “Shooting Guards.”The documentary revisits the time Arenas and Javaris Crittenton were teammates with the Washington Wizards and possessed guns in the Wizards home locker room. Then NBA commissioner David Stern first handed Arenas an indefinite suspension after Arenas pointed his index finger at teammates pretending to shoot them before a game Jan.
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5 days ago |
azcentral.com | Duane Rankin
Phoenix Suns superstar Kevin Durant made the Professional Basketball Writers Association's All-Interview first team as a top vote-getter, along with Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry. The PBWA is honoring players who are "consistently thoughtful, insightful and engaging with the media."Durant has developed a strong rapport with journalists over the course of his NBA career that has lasted nearly two decades.
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5 days ago |
usatoday.com | Duane Rankin
Phoenix Suns superstar Kevin Durant made the Professional Basketball Writers Association's All-Interview first team as a top vote-getter, along with Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry. The PBWA is honoring players who are "consistently thoughtful, insightful and engaging with the media."Durant has developed a strong rapport with journalists over the course of his NBA career that has lasted nearly two decades.
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6 days ago |
azcentral.com | Duane Rankin
Watching the New York Knicks go up 2-0 on the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals conjures up playoff memories for Charles Barkley. “I’m one of the few people in the world who have been in this situation twice,” Barkley said during TNT’s Inside The NBA on Wednesday night, May 7. The second-seeded Celtics have lost Game 1 and Game 2 at home to the third-seeded Knicks. Game 3 is Saturday, May 10, at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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Suns' Kevin Durant wins @ProHoopsWriters Magic Johnson Award for on-court excellence, media availability (w/video) #Suns https://t.co/PYCTGNyB18 via @azcentral
RT @celtics: The comeback will be greater than the setback 💚 https://t.co/r7r92lBb93
Stephen Curry (left hamstring strain) injury update. Ruled out Game 5 tonight vs. Minnesota Timberwolves. Will be re-evaluated Saturday. T-Wolves up 3-1 on Golden State Warriors. Game 6 (if necessary) Sunday in San Francisco. #NBAPlayoffs2025 https://t.co/I7UbPd1pZG