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Suns' Dragan Bender looks to end season on high note as a starter with eyes on the future

Phoenix Suns coach Igor Kokoskov talks about how Dragan Bender went from not playing at all to starting. Duane Rankin, Arizona Republic

Dragan Bender has found ways to make this season not feel so doom and gloom.

When coming out of timeouts for home games, he takes a Gatorade sweat towel and puts it over the game monitor at the scorers table to mess with Suns director of game presentations, Brett Samet.

“I just like seeing him get mad,” said a laughing Bender. “They just got a new (screen) last week so it’s pretty fun. Just having fun with them and trying to be positive.