Jims_Doors
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To be fair, that 29 win Suns team was missing more than Steve Nash!! They fired Head Coach Frank Johnson 21 games into the season and replaced him with D'Antoni who was an assistant at the time. Amare Stoudemeir missed 30 games due to injury, Penny Hardaway and Tom Gugliotta missed 50 games each due to injury and starting point guard Stephon Marbury was traded to the Knicks halfway through the season leaving rookie Leandro Barbosa to play point.
As important as Nash was, it's not like he was solely responsible for the turnaround!!
Penny was also traded to the Knicks....not injured. Gugliotta played 30 games and barely avg. 10mins per game. He wasn't a factor.
If no moves were made then there's only speculation what their record would have been with Penny playing 76 games that year and Marbury's 81 games. (the combined amount between the 2 teams)
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