How the Phoenix Suns Created a Monster

Congratulations, Suns!

You killed the elephant in the room. The gorilla on your back. The skeleton in your closet.

Whatever it was, you finally vanquished your arch nemesis, the San Antonio Spurs.

And you did it with gusto.

When Steve Nash went down with a gashed eye late in Game 4, the demons of a tortured past came creeping out of the court, threatening to pull them into the abyss alongside the broken face of Joe Johnson, the fractured knee of Amare Stoudemire, the bleeding nose of Steve Nash, the hip of Robert Horry, and the 3-pointer of Tim Duncan.

The curse of the Spurs had reared its ugly head again, and the excuses for becoming the first team in NBA history to blow a 3-0 lead engulfed the franchise like a billow of smoke from hell.

But t...

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