It should be etched somewhere in the Suns’ facility: “The ball finds energy.”
Those hallowed words of Suns’ coaching great Mike D’Antoni serve as the foundation of his simple, revolutionary offensive ideology, and have gone on to change the NBA. Those words are to Suns’ fans what a favorite bible verse is to a churchgoer. Not radical, but so important.
D’Antoni is gone, and so is the guy, Steve Nash, who infused the ball with so much of the energy it picked up pinging around the court in the mid-2000s. But there’s a reason that idea holds so much weight still today, in Phoenix and around the league.