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Nevin Lasanis
06/01/26

“They showed me the door.” Durant punished Phoenix with a game-winning shot

There are two kinds of emotions that come with game-winning shots. The first is pure math: a good situation, the right shot, the game is closed out. The second is when an entire story gets packed into a single motion: expectations, disappointment, other people’s decisions, and your own personal...


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Nevin Lasanis
02/12/25

Suns Without Superstars: How Phoenix Broke Up Its Superteam and Learned to Win Again

Not so long ago, Phoenix was trying on championship rings, trading its future for a loud “right now” and pushing the payroll to the cap and beyond. After the trades for Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal, the question seemed to boil down to just one thing: when, not whether, they would win a title. The r...


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Nevin Lasanis
08/12/25

LeBron Chasing the Record, Not the Game: A Night We'll Want to Forget

At some point it started to feel like LeBron James was battling not the opponent, but his own personal record. The game against the Phoenix Suns stopped being a fight for the result and turned into a strange hunt for a tenth point – at the expense of the game itself, emotions, and the head coach's p...


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