The environment for a Suns-Jazz preseason game Friday night will not resemble the last time P.J. Tucker, Casey Jacobsen and Tibor Pleiss gathered in the same venue for a basketball game.
That was in “Freak City” three years ago, when they were Brose Baskets teammates playing in Bamberg, Germany, for a 6,800-person red sea of painted faces chanting to an unending backdrop of horns and drums. Friday night's game marks their first basketball engagement since sweeping the 2012 German League championship and German Cup as teammates.
Tucker has been a Suns mainstay since that year in Bamberg.