Suns
It is never just the losing when it comes to the San Antonio Spurs.
To the Suns, it's the excruciatingly painful fashion in which it occurs. Coping with Saturday's 117-115 double-overtime loss in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series overnight must have felt like sleeping on a bed of nails.
"I'm going to go home and watch it on instant classics," San Antonio's Brent Barry said when the drama ended.
The Suns do not need a replay. Visions of wasted opportunities to steal the Spurs' home-court advantage will race through their minds until they reconvene here Tuesday for Game 2.
It was the 16-point first-half lead the Suns held before foul trouble to Amaré Stoudemire, Shaquille O'Neal and Boris Diaw caught up with them and allowed San Antonio to close the gap to eight by halftime.
It was holding a lead for nearly all of the game until the final four minutes of regulation.
It was leading 93-90 with the ball, but getting a shot-clock violation before surrendering a......
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