Draft Blogging, pt. ii
Canis Hoopus — ... 7:56- Phoenix takes Earl Clark.  Rumors of an Amare to GSW deal abound.  Phoenix is in full-fledged rebuilding mode.  Did Phoenix just take Clark for Minny? ...

Suns draft / trade day a dizzying mess
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Here's the audio from tonight's Gentry/Kerr press conference and some Earl Clark audio as well. Audio provided by ...

How Well Do you Know E5?-A Brief Overview
Bright Side Of The Sun — Earl Clark Highlights (via bbvvaarrbbllee) From U of L Website: Talented forward with good all-around skills who earned NCAA East Region All-Tournament honors. Produced a double-double in 10 games last season, the latest of which was 17 points, 12 rebounds, four blocked shots and two assists against Tennessee in the East Region seminfinals. In his four NCAA Tournament games, he averaged a team-leading 14.5 points, 8.3 rebounds ...

New Suns roster...as it stands today
Bright Side Of The Sun — With all this movement going on let's just recap who is (and isn't) on the Suns roster... Centers: 1. Robin Lopez 2. Ben Wallace (sort of a center and sort of a Sun's "player") Power Forwards: 3. Amare Stoudemire (still here...technically) 4. Louis Amundson (is not a center) Tweener Forwards: 5. Jared Dudley 6. Earl Clark 7. Taylor Griffen Small Forward(s): ...

Daily Links: Guess what the topic is?
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... from their side of the Colorado River Tulsa World: Suns select Taylor Griffin in second round Local coverage of the Taylor Griffin pick Phoenix’s future beginning to inspire hope| Valley of the Suns Nice draft/trade recap from Michael Ratto: Picking Curry may help Warriors deal with Suns A look at the Curry from the Bay area Getting to know… Louisville’s Earl Clark " IMGA More on Earl Clark from the IMG Basketball Academy Hoops Addict " In The ...

Warriors Draft Day 2009: This Pretty Much Says It All
Golden State Of Mind — ... With its first-round pick, Phoenix selected 6-foot-10 Louisville forward Earl Clark, but the bigger news was that sources said the Suns expect to complete a trade with Golden State that would send Amaré Stoudemire to the Warriors next week for Davidson point guard and No. 7 pick Stephen Curry, center Andris Biedrins, power forward Brandan Wright and shooting guard Marco Belinelli. ...

Earl Clark's first full radio interview in Phoenix
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Here's Earl Clark's first interview on the Gambo and Ash show (without Gambo). Also in this clip is another Kerr interview.  Audio provided by ...

Okur, 'Sap, Booze... Who You Got?
SLC Dunk — ... coming off of the bench (unlikely, I must admit). Memphis made a play for Amar'e Stoudemire, and could turn to 'Sap to play alongside Hasheem Thabeet. New Jersey could be looking for a PF (after trading Ryan Anderson, all they have left is a disappointing Yi Jianlian and a disappointing Sean Williams). Phoenix might make some sense if they trade Amar'e, as they could use a big alongside whoever they get in return and in front of the Robin Lopez/Earl Clark duo.   All 3 guys have been huge ...

THANKS FOR NOTHING, GOLDEN STATE
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... This begs the question, if Kerr and Co. knew that Curry wasn’t involved in the deal, would they still have drafted Earl Clark?  Sure Clark is a  great athlete and put up some solid numbers at Louisville, but did the Suns really want him at 14? Before the draft, Kerr and Co. talked of picking the “best player available.” Maybe Clark fits that description, however, it’s also possible Kerr wanted someone else, and when Curry was chosen at 7, he was able to choose Clark. ...

NBA Draft 2009 Aftermath: Now Who Ends Up In The D-League?
Ridiculous Upside — ... are also a young team looking to gel.  Henderson should be able to play a lot on a team with little SG depth. 13. Tyler Hansbrough - Indiana Pacers - 5%                Right, he was a finished product in the 10th grade.  Maybe the Pacers mistake his suckiness for "needing to develop", but I strongly doubt it.  (Full Disclosure: I hate him) 14. Earl Clark - Phoenix Suns - 60% ...

Exclusive Photo’s: Mercury vs. Storm pt 2
Fanster.com — ... Look who came to the Mercury game on Wednesday...Earl Clark, Taylor Griffin, Goran Dragic, Robin Lopez and Amare Stoudemire... Game photo's after the jump...   WNBA: Seattle Storm at Phoenix Mercury 070109 - Images by Max Simbron

Reevaluating the Phoenix Suns off season options
Fanster.com — ... With the 14th pick, Steve Kerr and his sidekick David Griffin drafted Earl Clark (passing on the surprisingly still available ...

Phoenix Suns Summer League: The Game Plan
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Earl Clark - Having never seen Clark play it will all be new for me. I can't wait to see how he uses his size and athleticism on both ends of the floor and I want to see how he interacts with his teammates. There's a fine balance between being overly aggressive and too passive and on a team like the Suns it is hard for guys to get a feel for their role. ...

Site Note, and a Comment Starter: Your Rookie Sleeper
Rufus on Fire — ... coming days. === Comment Starter: Everyone generally agrees that Blake Griffin was the best pick for the Clips at number one, that Stephen Curry was the best available shooter, and that DeJuan Blair (knees notwithstanding) was drafted ridiculously late. But who's the one guy you think is being underrated, and you just don't understand why? Call me crazy, but, in retrospect, Taj Gibson was extremely impressive for USC. Really, what does Earl Clark have on Gibson? The Bulls nabbed a guy who blocked ...

Suns salary situation still not “dumped”: $4m to $8m in the tax hole
Fanster.com — ...   Sasha Pavlovic $1,500,000     Assumes Suns waive him. $1.5m guaranteed Earl Clark $1,471,900 $1,582,300 $1,692,700 Team ...

Getting Ready for Summer League
Clips Nation — ... , one of the more experienced NBA centers in Las Vegas, which should provide another challenge for Jordan.  Lottery pick Earl Clark will of course be the man to watch for the Suns. ...

NBA Summer League Day Four Preview and Live Thread
Pounding The Rock — ... behind the links. Timberwolves vs D-League Select at 3:00 - I want to keep an eye on Flynn, Ellington, Brewer, and Henderson today.  Siler, a very large man playing center, is a dark horse.  The D-League team has nobody I recognize. Suns vs Mavs at 5:00 - It is our first look at the Suns and they Suns have 4 probable roster guys in Alando Tucker, Robin Lopez, Goran Dragic, and first round pick Earl Clark.  They also have second round pick Taylor Griffin ...

Summer Suns get 1st win behind BIG play from Lopez
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Those expecting a look at rookie Earl Clark in his first game in a Suns uniform (of sorts) and hoping to see what kind of progress Dragic made were disappointed. Just moments before the game Clark was scratched due to tightness in his lower back. He told me after the game in his quiet and subdued tone that he was unable to get loose prior to the game. Coach Gentry said they held him out as a precautionary measure and they expect him to be ready for Wednesday's game. ...

Summer Suns Game 1: Post Game Audio
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... jump...enjoy     Summer Head Coach Dan Majerle     Robin Lopez     Alando Tucker (and yes, we talked through the national anthem but in our defense we were kind of in another room...). Tuck broke a little news in this one about Barbosa's family situation. Congrats to LB!     Earl Clark   Also be sure to ...

NBA Summer League Day Four Recap - The D-League Shines
Pounding The Rock — ... Earl Clark - the Suns first round pick took a DNP with back spasms.  Apparently, he has a high degree of empathy and was feeling LatinD's pain. ...

Channing Frye: Happy to be home
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Kerr must have went straight to the airport after the press conference because he arrived here in Vegas around 830pm. He and Sarver were seen meeting along with David Griffin in the stands of the Thomas and Mack Center while Blake Griffin put on a show during the Clippers / Hornets game. Kerr told me that Earl Clark will play tomorrow and that Goran Dragic practiced today but will be a game time decision. He strained his groin after slipping in the first game. Audio clips from Frye's press conference ...

Game Thread: Summer Suns vs Vegas Raptors
Bright Side Of The Sun — Suns are about 2hrs away from tipping off their second game against the Raptors summer squad. No word yet if Dragic will play against two of the better known point guards he might face here: Quincy Douby and Roko Ukic. Earl Clark should play. The front court match ups will be interesting with Lopez going against Patrick O'Bryant who is big and has some NBA experience in Golden State and Boston. He didn't play much in either place but he at least should be a better test for Robin then the Dallas centers. In ...

Suns blow late lead to drop 2nd Summer League contest
Fanster.com — ... the block but landed on Goran's back and ended up falling face first into the court hitting hard on his chin and wrist. He was on the ground for about 10 minutes before being taken off on a stretcher for precautionary reasons. I heard from someone with the staff here that he was cleared for any serious injures and someone else said something about some stitches in his mouth. Hopefully that proves to be correct and there's nothing more serious. Box Score Earl Clark first impressions Clark came out gunning and took a ...

Vegas Summer League Recap: Day 6
Ridiculous Upside — ... 's also played fairly well, and he scored 16 points on 12 shots, though he also shot 1-5 on his three-pointers.  Earl Clark can rebound, I'll tell you that, with 12 rebounds in just over 27 minutes, though he also had five rebounds and needed 12 shots to get 13 points.  ...

Suns look to push the tempo in next game
Fanster.com — ... The most disappointing aspect of the Suns loss to the Raptors on Wednesday was the lack of pace. The team didn’t feel that they saw “Suns ball” so in the next game Friday against the 2-0 D-League squad we should see a different approach. To keep things rolling look for Taylor Griffin to play more power forward while Earl Clark shares time at center with Robin Lopez.  Josh Carter and Micah Downs will likely get minutes at the small forward and the back court will feature Zabian Dowdell and ...

Suns look to push the tempo in next game
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... The most disappointing aspect of the Suns loss to the Raptors on Wednesday was the lack of pace. The team didn't feel that they saw "Suns ball" so in the next game Friday against the 2-0 D-League squad we should see a different approach. To keep things rolling look for Taylor Griffin to play more power forward while Earl Clark shares time at center with Robin Lopez.  Josh Carter and Micah Downs will likely get minutes at the small forward and the back court will feature Zabian Dowdell and Goran Dragic. ...

Suns vs D-League Select: The Tale of Two Dragi
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... This game was all about Goran just as the first game was about Robin and the second game was the Earl Clark debut. Both of those guys were unimpressive in this one. ...

Summer League Open Thread: Sin City Grizzlies vs. Summer Suns
Bright Side Of The Sun — Howdy from Vegas, Suns fans!  Phoenix Stan has headed back to the Valley of the Sun leaving me with sole Summer League duties today.   The Suns play the Memphis Grizzlies' summer squad today.  As Phoenix Stan pointed out in his most recent re-cap, each game seems to have been a showcase for a different young Sun: Robin Lopez, Earl Clark, and Goran Dragic.  I'm curious to see how the Suns use their fourth game.  I expect to see more of the Slovenian Slasher (Yes? No? It's more ...

Summer Suns Get Out-Everythinged by Grizzlies
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Rounding out the Suns' "big three" here in Las Vegas, Earl Clark had a thoroughly mediocre performance.  Rather than using his athleticism to drive and create, Clark fell in love with mid- to long-range jumpers, making 4 and missing 8.  Fortunately, the rookie continues to attack the glass (5 boards) and notched 3 blocks to boot. ...

Daily Links: Jumbled Links
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Storm WNBA stat greatness The Eight Biggest Stories of Summer League - TrueHoop By Henry Abbott - ESPN The Las Vegas Summer League is a lot like the Sundance Film Festival of the NBA. Whereas the pageantry of most NBA games has gotten out of control, Summer League games are small indie productions. Dragic and Clark shine, Lopez not so much| Valley of the Suns The Las Vegas Summer League is over and Goran Dragic, Robin Lopez, Earl Clark, and Taylor Griffin can finally be judged. How did ...

2009 Phoenix Suns Summer League Wrap Up
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Earl Clark- For me, the jury is way out on Clark.   As Phoenix Stan pointed out, the players at Summer League who were driven and want to excel clearly stood out.   ...

The bright side of summer...
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Earl Clark: Clark should be a starter this year. Yes, he's a rookie who will make a lot of mistakes but if there is anyone who can make a rookie wing like Clark look good it's Nash. Plus, starting Clark takes us back to the days of Amare/Marion and I believe gives us the best chance of exploiting other teams and just outrunning/scoring teams on a nightly basis. Of course, being a rookie he will have a lot to work on...the thing I think he needs to work on most? Conditioning. If he can get into the best shape of his life so ...

Create Your Own Franchise
Canis Hoopus — ... (2) Ryan Hollins (2) DeAndre Jordan (2) Rookies: Blake Griffin (5) James Harden (4) Hasheem Thabet (4) Tyreke Evens (4) Johny Flynn (4) Stephen Curry (4) Jorden Hill (4) Demere Derozen (3) Brndon Jennings (3) Terrence Williams (3) Gereld Henderson (3) Tyler Hansborough (3) Earl Clark (3) Austin Daye ...

Common Misconceptions About the Phoenix Suns
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... , and Earl Clark.  Taking all of these young players, combined with our two "retirees", the Suns have an average age of 26.4.  That's better than the current championship favorites: the ...

Phoenix Suns sign Taylor Griffin
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... The Suns make it official today, signing Taylor "Big Brother" Griffin to the 13th roster spot on the team. And no, this still isn't making much sense to me unless a) the Suns aren't done dealing or b) they think that Griffin will be a good rookie running mate for Earl Clark and give him a peer role model for hard work and hustle. Or maybe by having another "lesser" brother, the Suns think that Taylor will deflect some attention on that front from Robin who is quite sensitive about the other brother issue. ...

Western Predictions - Where do the Clippers Fit?
Clips Nation — ... , provided significant positive contributions to those teams.  I just don't see anyone on the Suns current roster who is going to do that, with the possible exception of Earl Clark. ...

Suns 2009-10 Season Preview Part II: Assessing the Offseason
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... picks for the second year in a row.  The financial condition of the team continues to improve.  This is the best Sarver era off-season yet and it was a good one.  In fact, I'm quite proud of how the front-office has handled the offseason and I look to further improvements in team management as this ownership group continues to earn its stripes. Retained Steve Nash and Grant Hill (wow) Picked Up Channing Frye (nice) Drafted Earl Clark and Taylor Griffin (we get to keep 'em??) ...

Around the Association: 2009-2010 Phoenix Suns- Who knows?
Golden State Of Mind — ... New Faces: Earl Clark (F drafted #14 overall) Channing Frye (PF/C signed as a FA) Sasha Pavlović (G/F) Contract Bought Out Ben Wallace (C) Contract Bought Out   Departed: Shaquille O'Neal (C, traded for two guys who aren't on the roster) A Clear Plan (lost to time, trades and the ravishing axe of the bottom line, fighting desperately to avoid huge luxury tax penalties.)   Prognosis: This is no ...

Thoughts, Observations, and Audio (Soon) From Suns Media Day 2009
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... just naturally wired, very vocal and full of joy because he was jumping around, bouncing a ball all over the place, smiling ear to ear talkin' this and that all over the joint. Jared Dudley is still working the tweet and all over the NBA street rags doing interviews. The man can talk, and his personality is more than cordial. Leandro Barbosa doesn't care if he's starting or not so we shouldn't care either. Earl Clark wants a piece of Kobe and Carmello Anthony ...

Earl Clark Enjoying Training Camp
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... rookie Earl Clark I am reminded of a certain former Phoenix player who also muttered a bit when he talked. Unlike that other guy who wore #31, Clark hasn't yet developed the humor and light-hearted nature to go along with his laid back persona. ...

Robin Lopez Out Until Thanksgiving: Who's Panicking?
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Earl Clark will be given an opportunity to exhibit his freakish wing span and long, lanky frame: per Gentry, he will be seeing some time at the big 5! ...

Phoenix Suns Preseason Game #1: Partizan Belgrade
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Earl Clark. Honestly, I kind of feel like I've seen all I need to see from Clark in Vegas. The kid's got all five tools and the question for him is can he put it together over the course of an NBA season. I am sure he's going to do some amazing things over these next few games but honestly, I don't care. I want to know how he looks in early February after the excitement has worn off and he's cashed a few of those big pay checks ...

Phoenix Suns Season Preview Series, Part 5: Wrap Up
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... If those things happen and Earl Clark settles into the NBA and can contribute solid perimeter defense and has a "do no harm" approach to his offense (which means laying off the jump shots) then the Phoenix Suns should make it back to the playoffs and at least give someone a scare in the first round. ...

Clippers vs. Phoenix - Game Preview
Clips Nation — ... full season as the head man in Phoenix, and they intend to revive the 'seven seconds or less' days.  Last February, in Gentry's first two games after replacing Terry Porter, the Suns hung 140 and 142 points on the Clippers in back to back games.  So they're probably looking forward to this one.  Beyond the first unit and Leandro Barbosa, the Suns don't look like much.  Goran Dragic, Lou Amundson, Jared Dudley, Alando Tucker and rookie Earl Clark are among the non-household names that sit on Phoenix' ...

Amare Stoudemire's Rocky Road to Recovery
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... baseline and forced the ball out resulting in a missed long range shot from the Clippers. If Amare can continue to improve his defense and can still hit his outside shot and get to the line than there's no reason to think that Amare The Beast won't be back better then ever by late November. Of course, having watched Amare for his entire career I would not be surprised if he went off for 30 against the Warriors on Friday night.   Earl Clark - Surprise of the Game When Channing Frye went out ...

Phoenix Suns Season Preview (For SBN)
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... here's the bare bones that we all have been agonizing over. Also, be sure to check the team previews at:  http://www.celticsblog.com/2009/9/19/1037258/nba-blog-previews-2009-schedule Team Name: Phoenix Suns Last Year's Record: 46-36 Key Losses: Shaquille O'Neal, Matt Barnes (not really a "Key" loss) Key Additions: Channing Frye, Earl Clark 1. What Significant Moves were made during the ...

Practice Notes and...Guess Whose Birthday it is?
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Taylor Griffin showing how his hops. Literally had him stand in front of the rim on one leg and dunk and then then stand in the paint in the lane (where they stand for free throws) and dunk w/ two hands from a stand still jumping off both feet. Amare tried that same dunk a few times. He got it once and missed it three or four time. Grant Hill tried it and air balled the dunk right over the rim which caused pretty much everyone to laugh. Great stuff Taylor G and Earl Clark were last on the floor. They were working w/ Coach Igor on ...

Competition Discussion: Rest of the League
Bullets Forever — ... players to make this work totally effectively.  Nevertheless, I still see them as a playoff team, because any improvements in Iguodala and Brand should offset drops in the team's defense and the rest of the guys. Phoenix Suns Last season: 46-36 (Pythagorean record: 46-36) Biggest team strength: Shooting (best in the league) Biggest team weakness: Shot defense (23rd in the league) In: Earl Clark, Channing Frye,  Out: Shaquille O'Neal, ...

Game Thread: Suns vs Celtics
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... Louis Amundson 17 F Leandro Barbosa 10 G Earl Clark 55 F Jarron Collins 20 C Goran Dragic 2 ...

Preview and Game Thread: Suns @ Wizards
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... 0.0 1.5 1.5 100.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 Earl Clark 5 11.6 1.4 4.0 35.0 0.0 ...

Game Thread: Suns @ 76ers
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... 0.0 1.5 1.5 100.0 0.0 0.5 0.5 1.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.5 Earl Clark 6 10.5 1.2 3.5 33.3 0.0 ...

Stoudemire and Gentry Not On The Same Page About Shot Selection
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... court He's not comfortable wearing the goggles and said they fog up and get blury. Has to clean them sometimes even during plays Amare said the Lakers played great basketball but that one game does not determine anything. He said the Suns have other teams to worry about like Raptors tomorrow Amare said they are taking it easy on the rookies but they do have morning Krispy Kreame duties. Amare's reported being all over the glazed ones. He said the Earl Clark is developing well and that he talks to him to help keep his ...

The Evolution of Jared Dudley
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... actually intimidated me, Earl Clark was too soft spoken for me to understand (and his words came from what seemed to be the ceiling of US Airways), ...

Practice Report: Nash Says Suns Got "Fat" and "Cozy" with 10-2 Record
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... subbing in and out for Grant Hill. Nash was fine by the way - obviously there's no need for HIM to get in extra floor time. The guys were into it and it was great to hear communication on the defensive end and see Gentry really lay into guys when he didn't like what he was seeing. At the same time between plays there was still some joking around. It was nice mix between intense focus and loose camaraderie. The highlights of the scrimmage were: Earl Clark throwing down a massive jam which drew plenty of oohs and ...

Bobcats Crush Pacers 104-88
Rufus on Fire — ... , DeJuan Blair, Austin Daye... even guys like DeMar DeRozan and Earl Clark, on teams having surprising success and with reasonable hopes for a playoff run, are playing more minutes than Henderson, which is utterly ridiculous. ...

Hope versus Expectations -- Another Poll
Bright Side Of The Sun — "Do not expect too much from me, and you will not be let down."  I love typing, saying, humming and singing that Gin Blossoms lyric.  I'm looking around and seeing posts about Earl Clark and rivalries and Skywalker/Yoda allusions to the Lakers.  I had been thinking about this and it was about time to chime in. What would you rather have? The Suns' fans have hope.  It was a dismal (well, relatively dismal) 2008-2009 campaign and no one's expectations were buoyed by the off-season ...

Dealing with no hope
Canis Hoopus — ... together a team that clearly can't compete at an NBA level right now.  From quickes about Ricky Rubio to extended stories about how the Wolves were consistantly out of position, perhaps it was a good thing that the Wolves weren't granted a national audience tonight.  If they did have a spot on ESPN they may go from 4 shirts at Scheel's to 1 or 2.  Some highlights from the game: Robyn Lopez torching Al Jefferson in his first minutes of the season, Earl Clark showing all sorts of versatility, Goran Dragic getting a ...

Preview: Kings at Suns
Sactown Royalty — ... 0.0 0.8 1.0 75.0 1.5 1.8 3.3 0.0 2.0 0.3 0.8 2.0 4.3 Earl Clark 15 10.3 1.7 3.7 45.5 0.0 ...

No Surprises Here, Suns Drubbed by Lakers 108-88
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... The Suns second unit played pretty well. Lopez, Dragic, and Dudley all played solid. Earl Clark had a nice 15 footer off the dribble. ...