--The Suns won their 10th consecutive game against Toronto, tying their longest active win streak against one opponent (Memphis). It also extends the Raptors' longest active losing streak against one opponent. The Suns' 10-straight wins are a series best, and all 10 wins have come since Canada's most famous basketball player returned to Arizona.
--The Suns swept the season series against the Raptors for the fifth-straight season. The Raptors have won the season series just twice all-time and not since 2003-04. --The Suns finished the month of February with a season-best 6-1 record at home, surpassing December's 5-1 mark. It marks Phoenix's best win percentage at home in a single month since March 2007 (9-1).
--Phoenix is now 5-2 under Alvin Gentry, and all five wins have come by double-figures and by an average of 23.0 points. Phoenix is averaging 125.9 points under Gentry, including four 130-point efforts in seven games. The Suns tallied three more 30-point quarters and have now scored at least 30 in 16 of 28 quarters since the coaching change.
--Shaquille O'Neal (a Phoenix-best 45 points) became the third different Sun to top the 40-point mark in the last six games, joining Amare Stoudemire (42 against the Clippers on Feb. 18) and Leandro Barbosa (41 against Charlotte last Tuesday).
--Even without Steve Nash, who missed his second straight game with a sprained ankle, the Suns handed out 31 assists, the most Phoenix has recorded in eight games without Nash this season. The Suns are now 3-5 without Nash this season and 7-17 dating back to the 2004-05 season.
--This game marked the first time the Suns have won a game without both Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire in the lineup since they became teammates to begin the 2004-05 season.
--Phoenix committed just 12 turnovers and is now 10-1 this season when committing fewer miscues than the opposition. The Suns have won the turnover battle in four of their last six games and in four of seven under Gentry after doing so seven times in the season's first 51 games.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "It doesn't matter who is out there -- Yao Ming, (Tim) Duncan -- that's any team for me. If I can get touches like that, it doesn't matter who is out there -- they're going to have to double- or triple-team me, especially now the way I'm shooting free throws. I think I'm the only player that looks at each and every center and says to myself, 'that's barbecue chicken down there.'" -- Shaquille O'Neal, who exploded for 45 points and 11 rebounds.
