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In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).
"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.
Steve Albert is currently the Phoenix Suns play-by-play announcer, and has also called play-by-play for several other teams, including the New Orleans Hornets, New Jersey Nets, New York Islanders, New York Mets, and Golden St. Warriors.
From 1966 to 1968, the league expanded from 9 to 14 teams, introducing the Chicago Bulls, Seattle SuperSonics ( now Oklahoma City Thunder ), San Diego Rockets ( who relocated to Houston four years later ), Milwaukee Bucks, and Phoenix Suns.
On October 11, 2008, the Phoenix Suns and the Denver Nuggets played the first outdoor game in the modern era of the NBA at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
** John Paxson's 3-point shot in Game 6 of the NBA Finals helps the Chicago Bulls secure a 99 – 98 win over the Phoenix Suns, and their third consecutive championship.
* June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128-126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at the Boston Garden.
The word " percentage " is often a misnomer in the context of sports statistics, when the referenced number is expressed as a decimal proportion, not a percentage: " The Phoenix Suns ' Shaquille O ' Neal led the NBA with a. 609 field goal percentage ( FG %) during the 2008-09 season.
* Phoenix Suns
Although they finished January with 10 wins and 5 losses, they had already lost to the defending Champions San Antonio Spurs twice, twice to the Phoenix Suns, and in a nationally televised broadcast lost by 36 points to their eventual opponent in the 2006 NBA Finals the Dallas Mavericks.
The next day however, the Heat agreed to trade O ' Neal to the Phoenix Suns for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks, effectively ending the Wade-O ' Neal era.
Gabriel dismantled the previous team trading their only remaining superstar Anfernee Hardaway to the Phoenix Suns for Danny Manning ( who never donned a Magic uniform ), Pat Garrity, and two future draft picks.
On July 21, the Magic signed former Phoenix Suns Forward Matt Barnes.
On December 18, 2010, having lost five of their last six games, the Magic made a blockbuster trade deal with the Phoenix Suns and the Washington Wizards.
On June 17, 1992, Barkley was traded to the Phoenix Suns for Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry, and Andrew Lang, a deal that was met with harsh criticism.
In the Bulls did what no team had done since the legendary Celtics of the ' 60s by chalking up the three-peat over regular season MVP Charles Barkley and the Phoenix Suns, with John Paxson's 3-pointer with 3. 9 seconds left that gave them a 99 – 98 victory in Game 6 in Phoenix.
During the 2004 offseason, Paxson traded a 2005 draft pick to the Phoenix Suns in return for an additional pick in the 2004 NBA Draft.
On June 25, 2009, 4-time NBA Champion and 15-time All-Star center Shaquille O ' Neal was traded from the Phoenix Suns to the Cavaliers.
Miller had his No. 31 jersey retired by the Pacers on March 30, 2006 when the Pacers played the Phoenix Suns.
The Bucks ' record that year earned them a coin flip against their expansion brethren, the Phoenix Suns, to see who would get the first pick in the upcoming draft.
The Big Three gradually disbanded with Nash returning to the Phoenix Suns in 2004, and Finley picked up off waivers by the Spurs in 2005.
In a separate trade on the same day, the Timberwolves traded Nikoloz Tskitishvili to the Phoenix Suns for a 2006 second-round draft pick.
Without a healthy David Robinson, the Spurs were swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Phoenix Suns.

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The Tomcat did not have the requisite IFF capability mandated by the JFACC to satisfy the Rules of Engagement ( ROE ) to utilize the Phoenix capability at Beyond Visual Range ( BVR ).
After the Phoenix Force is stopped, many of Magneto's followers have lost faith in his methods.
The island's prehistoric settlement may have begun about 1000 BC when eastern Melanesians traveled north and may have extended down to Rawaki, Kanton, Manra and Orona of the Phoenix Islands, 500 to 700 km southeast.
He and wife Lori have since adopted and / or taken in five children from the Phoenix inner-city neighborhoods Lori once frequented as a part of the Master's Commission, a worldwide discipleship program now based out of Relevant Church in the Dallas Metro area.
There is speculation that Amelia Earhart might have crash-landed her plane at Nikumaroro in the Phoenix Islands group during her 1937 attempt to fly around the world.
That poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous Anglo-Saxon poem to which the modern title The Phoenix is given.
The town also has other points of cultural notability ; in recent times, its position as an affluent suburb of Paris has meant that it forms a part of the Paris artistic scene, and musical groups such as Phoenix, Air and Daft Punk have some link to the city, as does the director Michel Gondry.
In Phoenix, Arizona and Seattle, Washington, among other places, metered on-ramps have been implemented.
Since this initial appearance, plans have been underway at The Weinstein Company to bring Knight Rider to the big screen as an updated take on the original series pilot, " Knight of the Phoenix ".
Howard Community College is located near the town center, while the University of Phoenix, American Career Institute, Lincoln College of Technology, Loyola University Maryland and Johns Hopkins University have facilities on the east side of town.
He is captured after he is discovered to have ties to Phoenix.
In the course of the colonization of Northern America a number of cities have received the name of Phoenix or have been associated with its symbolism.
Phoenix was said to have died on his way back from Troy and to have been buried by Neoptolemus either in Eion, Macedonia, or in Trachis, Thessaly.
During a skirmish with the X-Men's first and most deadly foe, Magneto, Phoenix and Beast were separated from the other X-Men, with each group believing the other to have perished.
She attacked her friends and would have destroyed the planet, if not for the arrival of the X-Men and new Ultra hero Foxfire, who after a long battle were able to separate the Phoenix from Amber and send the cosmic entity back to the Earth-616 universe.
Jean then declares that she and the Phoenix force are truly one entity now, have transcended into the White Phoenix of the Crown.
It has since been theorized that Scarlet Witch's spell of " No more mutants " angered the Phoenix, and in order to calm the entity, a new host was needed along with five acolytes, to succeed and bringing evolution ( the acolytes were actually the first five new mutants that have appeared around the globe since the decimation of the mutant population ), and that was the reason why the Phoenix came to Earth.
Although the Avengers have managed to defeat Namor, his portion of the Phoenix Force has since been divided between the other four members of the " Phoenix Five " making it harder to defeat them.
Together they have become the White Phoenix of the Crown.

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