The seats at the Footprint Center were not at capacity on Friday night as the Phoenix Suns’ season came to an end. The miserable manner in which they lost the game, being down by 30 points to the Denver Nuggets at the half and never recovering, led many spectators to leave early.
What they didn’t realize is that as the final seconds fell off the clock, it wasn’t just the end of the 2022-23 season for Phoenix. It was the end of an Era and Phoenix Suns basketball.
Al McCoy, the longest tenured broadcaster in NBA history, was wrapping up his final broadcast for 98.