A spark. That’s all it takes to ignite a flame. If you’ve ever been camping, fumbling with flint while your family watches, you know the feeling. Knees to the earth, praying for that one ember to catch. For the Phoenix Suns in Week 20, the sparks began to fly. The fire isn’t roaring just yet, but something is shifting.
Down big against two of the West’s elite, the Suns clawed back. They won one, lost one, but showed the kind of fight that has too often been missing. Was this just desperation? The late-season scramble of a team feeling the walls closing in?