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Suns Earn Best
Record in NBA
The Denver Nuggets triple-team Phoenix Suns forward Amare
Stoudem ire in the second qua rte r M onday in Phoenix. (AP photo)
The Phoenix Suns didn’t need
to beat the Denver Nuggets to
clinch home-court advantage
throughout the NBA playoffs.
They blew them out anyway.
The Suns will have the extra
game o f every playoff series at
home.
Joe Johnson scored 18 of his
26 points in a44-point first quar­
ter in which the Suns shot 71
percent and took a 19-point lead.
Amare Stoudemire also scored
26 points. Shawn Marion had 18
and Quentin Richardson 16 in
the Suns’ 62nd victory, tying the
franchise record set by the 1992-
93 team that made it to the NBA
Finals.
“That might be one of my
best quarters," Johnson said. "It
was a lot of fun, I have to admit.
My shot was falling, and guys
were finding me. We had 44
points in the first quarter. You
couldn’t ask for too much better
than that.”
Suns coach Mike D ’Antoni
couldn't find anything wrong with
the first half.
"I don’t think we can play
any better than that,” he said.
“ Y ou’d have to ask Joe if he
can play any better than that.
I mean, it was m ind-boggling.
And the rest o f them - Steve
Nash takes two shots and hits
two 3s. We came out and re­
ally took care o f business. I
just feel like w e’re getting our
energy and our focus back at
a good tim e.”
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Blazer Herm Gilliam Dead at 58
Championship Team Player Remembered
Form er Trail B lazer Herm
G illia m , w ho p la y e d on
Portland’s 1976-77 N B A C ham -
pionship team, died Saturday at
his home from a heart attack,
the team said. He was 58.
Gilliam , a form er player at
Purdue and a guard on the Port­
land Trail B lazers’ only NBA
cham pionship, lived in Portland.
He played eight seasons in the
NBA, averaging 10.8 points and
3.8 assists a game.
He played forC incinnati, Buf­
falo, Atlanta and Seattle before
spending his final season, 1976-
77, with the Trail Blazers. Port-
Herm Gilliam
played on
Portland's
World Champi­
onship team.
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land beat P h ilad elp h ia in six
games that year to claim the NBA
title.
Gilliam was the Cincinnati Roy­
als’ first-round draft pick, eighth
overall, out of Purdue in 1969. He
had seven points and 11 rebounds
in the Boilerm akers' 92-72 loss to
UCLA in the 1969 NCAA cham ­
pionship game.
He averaged 15.9 points a game
in three seasons at Purdue and was
All-Big Ten as a senior in 1969.
The Blazers held a moment of
silence for Gill ¡am before Sunday
night's 100-82 victory over the
Utah Jazz.
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