The Suns’ 1976 Western Conference finals team long has been recognized with a banner at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, the Suns’ home at the time, and with a sign in the Suns Ring of Honor at Talking Stick Resort Arena.
The season of the “Sunderella Suns” was captured in a record and a book at the time and last month in a hour-long documentary, but the team never has gathered again like it will Saturday night in a 40th anniversary celebration at the arena, where their NBA Finals adversary, Boston, fittingly, will be visiting.
Each living member who played on that 1976 NBA Finals team, along with some staffers, will be honored at halftime of the Suns-Celtics game and will sign autographs in the arena’s pavilion from 6:15 p.