The Suns don't frequent the East Coast often. Opponents from opposite conferences only play each other twice a season, one at each team's respective home.
Phoenix took advantage of its current six-game road trip by putting some extra meaning behind its stop at Washington, D.C. The team was invited to visit the Pentagon, where they met a group of military officials that included the Head of the Department of Defense.
The Suns then turned their attention to the Arlington National Cemetery, the resting place of United States soldiers dating back to the Civil War.
Players made a point to stop at the Tomb of the Unknowns, a monument erected to honor fallen soldiers of both World Wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, but whose remains could not be identified.