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1991–92 Phoenix Suns season

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Head coach
  
Cotton Fitzsimmons

Owner(s)
  
Jerry Colangelo

General manager
  
Jerry Colangelo

Record
  
53–29 (.646)

Arena
  
Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Place
  
Division: 3rd (Pacific) Conference: 4th (Western)

The 1991–92 Phoenix Suns season was the 24th for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. The Suns were led by head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons, which would be the last of his four-season second stint as coach of the Suns. All home games were played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The team got off to a slow 5–9 start, but went on a nine-game winning streak as they won 14 of their next 15 games. The Suns finished third in the Pacific Division with a 53–29 record. In the first round of the playoffs, they swept the San Antonio Spurs in three straight games, but lost 4–1 to the Portland Trail Blazers in the semifinals.

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Guard Jeff Hornacek led the Suns in scoring, averaging 20.1 points for the season. Fellow guard mates Kevin Johnson and Dan Majerle were second and third in scoring, with Johnson's 19.7 points and team-leading assist average, 10.7, to go with Majerle's 17.3 scoring average. Tom Chambers, at 32 years of age, appeared in 69 games and averaged 16.3 point per contest. Hornacek finished the season third in three-point field goal percentage, while Johnson's assist average was good for second-best in the league.

Majerle was selected to appear in his first-career All-Star Game along with Hornacek, while by season's end, Johnson was selected to the All-NBA Third Team. Second-year player Cedric Ceballos won the Slam Dunk Contest during the All-Star Weekend in Orlando. Following the season, Hornacek was traded along with Tim Perry and Andrew Lang to the Philadelphia 76ers.

Roster Notes

  • Forward Richard Dumas was suspended for violating the NBA's substance abuse policy.

    • Season standings

    y – clinched division title x – clinched playoff spot z – clinched division title y – clinched division title x – clinched playoff spot

    Week/Month

  • Jeff Hornacek was named Player of the Month for December.
  • Cotton Fitzsimmons was named Coach of the Month for December.

    • All-Star

  • Jeff Hornacek was selected as a reserve for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game. It was his first and only All-Star selection. Hornacek finished seventh in voting among Western Conference guards with 271,180 votes.
  • Dan Majerle was selected as a reserve for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game. It was his first All-Star selection.
  • Other Suns players receiving All-Star votes were Tom Chambers (406,185) and Kevin Johnson (309,820).
  • Cedric Ceballos won the Slam Dunk Contest, winning the competition with the famous "Hocus Pocus" blindfolded dunk.
  • Jeff Hornacek participated in the Three-Point Shootout, losing to champion and former Suns teammate Craig Hodges.

    • Season

  • Kevin Johnson was named to the All-NBA Third Team. Johnson also finished 14th in MVP voting.
  • Dan Majerle finished third in Sixth Man of the Year voting.

    • Playoffs

    † – Minimum 20 field goals made.
    ^ – Minimum 5 three-pointers made.
    + – Minimum 10 free throws made.

    References

    1991–92 Phoenix Suns season Wikipedia
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