forty-four and fourteen

The Suns had their first road loss to the East. They are saying that this was going to be the first time ever that someone had totally swept the opposing conference on the road. Stoudemire had a double double perfomance with 31 points and 14 boards. Nash had 23 points and 9 assists. Raja Bell started in the place of Marion, who did not play, but only put in 13 points. Barbosa took over Raja's normal place, but had a poor shooting night, only 4 of 16, but he made a clutch 3-pointer close to the end of the game that put the Suns (44 - 14) within range to take the lead for the win. The Suns just couldn't pull it out. Not enough power without Marion. Diaw still didn't play last night, either. The Suns had just put together a 5 game winning streak, and went 3 for the first 3 games in this road trip, just to have it snapped by the sad 76ers (20 - 38) on the last game of the trip, 99 - 94. The Suns take on the Pacers (29 - 27) for the second time this week (two games in a row for the Pacers) to be able to hand Indiana another loss. It's in Phoenix at 7pm AZ time. GO SUNS!