PHX Suns - Denver The New Challenge

Here we are, Suns fans, round two of the NBA playoffs. There were some times this season where the Phoenix Suns seemed destined to be a first round out at best, yet here they are having finished off the Los Angeles Clippers for the right to challenge the top-seeded Nuggets.

This will be the Suns’ first game one on the road in a loooooong time. Their last such game was in 2010, when they began the Western Conference Finals on the road in Los Angeles for a series that would end in a horrible heartbreak and kick off a decade of mostly really depressing times.

The Nuggets are a tough team, and this edition is more complete than the version the Suns steamrolled in four straight games in 2021.

History tells us that game one is not decisive. The Suns dropped game one at home against the Clippers, and here we are. But winning is always better than not, and for the Suns to steal a game on the road to open the series against a Nuggets squad that is MUCH better at home than away (34-7 home vs. 19-22 on the road this regular season) would be huge.