Suns setting franchise record pace thanks to the Point God

Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul leading the way for the best team in basketball.

Your Phoenix Suns are on a 7-game winning streak and, at 37-9, have matched the best start in the Suns 54-year franchise history.

At this pace, they would win a franchise record 66 games this season. But keeping up this pace, no matter how talented and locked-in your team, is harder than you might think.

A handful of Suns teams in the past have been right around this win rate after 46 games. A pair of the Barkley teams were one game off the pace at 36-10 after 46 games. Barkley’s MVP season in 1992-93 started 36-10 on the way to 62 wins, the top seed in the conference and a trip to the NBA Finals. Two years later,…