The greatest collapse in Valley sports history will not be the 2017 Diamondbacks.
That distinction belongs to the 1993-94 Suns, a team that won five consecutive playoff games to start the postseason, including the first two road games of the Western Conference semifinals. Charles Barkley was at the peak of his powers, scoring 56 points in a series-clinching game against the Warriors a week earlier. Then it all fell apart.
Oh, wait. Maybe it was the following year, when the Suns squandered a 3-1 series lead in a rematch against the Rockets. The collective shame still burns on Planet Orange, where two great teams had two great chances to win an NBA championship immediately following Michael Jordan’s retirement.