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New day in NBA: Suns, Sonics race ahead

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Friday, December 17, 2004

It was, until Christmas comes, the most anticipated game of the season so far. It really was. It was a matchup that appeared on the ESPN schedule before the season started -- really -- and which convened the league's foremost trendsetters. The Suns and Sonics met Friday night at KeyArena as the two hottest teams in the new NBA, where smallish underdogs that attack the basket and pressure the opposition relentlessly can sprint to starts of 19-3 and 18-4. It was just six months ago that the Det ...

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