Amare Stoudemire News

When your team scores 119 points and shots 53% from the field there really isn't much to nitpick about the offense.

The cellphone rang and on the other end was an excited voice. His team had just hung the first loss of the season on the Celtics and in Boston, no less.

At first glance, the beginning of the Suns season looked like a bear. Six out of the first eight on the road, including a 5-game eastern road swing through Florida and the northeast, with two sets of back-to-backs thrown in for good measure.

Suns General Manager Steve Kerr joined his team for its weeklong road trip that ended Monday night and liked what he saw, both on and off the court.

Jason Richardson scored big against the Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards this weekend.

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Week Two has come and gone, unlike the Suns' success, which was predicted to go after a brutal roadtrip .

Jason Richardson finished with a game-high 22 points and Channing Frye added 18 to go along with 10 rebounds, as the Phoenix Suns claimed a 102-90 win over the Washington Wizards at Verizon Center.

Jason Richardson #23 of the Phoenix Suns during the NBA preseason game against the Sacramento Kings at US Airways Center on October 20, 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Before Friday's game, both Celtics coach Doc Rivers and Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry were effusive in their praise of Kendrick Perkins .

It used to be that a season's defining moments for the Suns came against the top teams.

The Boston Celtics hope to win their first seven games of the season for the second time in three years tonight at TD Garden, where they will welcome one of the West's best in the Phoenix Suns.

The Phoenix Suns are hoping to conjure up some old memories of the franchise tonight, when they shoot for the first 5-0 start since the 1984-85 season against the defending Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic at Amway Arena.

Lots of players against their old teams today, an NBA owner quietly settling a discrimination law suit, a woman getting the nod as head coach of a Dallas affiliated D-League team and two teams remaining unbeaten, one in each conference.

The Suns had one of those offensive nights that reminded fans of "good 'ol days". Eighty-two shots taken, forty-one made and thirty trips to the free throw line, all culminating in hundred and twenty points.

Yep, you heard me right. Amare Stoudemire is to me what Arthur Spooner was to Doug Heffernen.

The Phoenix Suns are hoping to conjure up some old memories of the franchise tonight, when they shoot for the first 5-0 start since the 1984-85 season against the defending Eastern Conference champion Orlando Magic at Amway Arena.

Who knew? Miami and Phoenix for the right to stay undefeated. The Heat is on. Suns at Heat C: Channing Frye .

The Suns pushed their conditioning last month to prepare for the way they want to play and for the grind of the season, and the players are helped when the staff backs off on practice days, as it did Monday.

Phoenix Suns' GM Steve Kerr appeared for his weekly visit on Sports 620 KTAR's Doug and Wolf show on Wednesday morning to talk about the team's preparation for the season.