With one minute and 30 seconds remaining in a November 25, game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns Hall of Fame broadcaster Al McCoy asked his simulcast audience on UPN 45 and KTAR 620 AM “are the Suns running out of time?”
Down 110-100 at that moment, in a game that the home team, had no business winning, one might have thought that yes, the Suns had run out of time, and that the Lakers would snap a four-game losing streak to Phoenix, and a two-game losing streak that year – each by one point.
In this era of Suns history, the fourth and final season with Charles Barkley on the roster, Phoenix had dominated the Lakers, following years of misery in which L.