1996-97 Phoenix Suns Statistics

National Basketball Association (NBA)
Team Record: 40-42
Finishing 4th in the NBA's Pacific Division of the Western Conference
Postseason: 2-3 Lost conference first round
Conference First Round - Lost to Seattle Supersonics 3-2
Coach: Cotton Fitzsimmons (0-8)
Coach: Danny Ainge (40-34)
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Attendance: 779,943, Avg. 19,023 in 41 home dates

1996-97 Phoenix Suns Roster
1996-97 Phoenix Suns Results

The Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association ended the 1996-97 season with a record of 40 wins and 42 losses, finishing fourth in the NBA's Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The team compiled a postseason mark of 2-3.

Phoenix scored 8,431 points and conceded 8,377. Kevin Johnson netted a team-leading 1,410 points for the Suns, while Hot Rod Williams racked up 562 rebounds. Kevin Johnson dished out 653 assists for the squad.

Defensively, Kevin Johnson added 102 steals.

Cotton Fitzsimmons and Danny Ainge coached the team. The 1996-97 Phoenix Suns lost in the conference first round.

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Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Kevin Johnson	G	70	70	2658	890	441	202	89	515	439	54	199	253	653	102	12	217	141	1410
Wesley Person	G	80	42	2326	903	409	414	171	114	91	68	224	292	123	86	19	76	102	1080
Danny Manning	F-C	77	17	2134	795	426	36	7	251	181	137	332	469	173	81	74	161	268	1040
Rex Chapman	G	65	33	1833	749	332	314	110	149	124	25	156	181	182	52	7	96	108	898
Cedric Ceballos	F	42	32	1147	534	248	81	21	171	126	91	186	277	49	28	17	68	94	643
Hot Rod Williams	F-C	68	66	2137	416	204	2	0	198	133	178	384	562	100	67	88	66	176	541
Jason Kidd	G	33	23	1173	326	138	100	40	96	66	34	125	159	296	79	12	76	72	382
Mark Bryant	F-C	41	18	1018	275	152	0	0	108	76	67	145	212	47	22	5	46	136	380
Michael Finley	G-F	27	18	796	297	141	55	14	69	56	34	86	120	68	18	4	44	42	352
Wayman Tisdale	F-C	53	15	778	371	158	0	0	48	30	35	85	120	20	8	21	36	111	346
Sam Cassell	G	22	9	539	241	100	62	19	124	106	12	38	50	99	23	6	60	66	325
Robert Horry	F	32	15	719	195	82	78	24	50	32	40	79	119	54	28	26	46	81	220
Steve Nash	G	65	2	684	175	74	55	23	51	42	16	47	63	138	20	0	63	92	213
Loren Meyer	C	35	17	449	166	74	5	3	52	37	39	57	96	12	5	12	35	73	188
A.C. Green	F-C	27	19	548	128	61	3	0	48	31	33	105	138	17	18	1	20	34	153
Joe Kleine	C	23	10	365	80	32	1	1	18	13	21	59	80	12	9	6	20	47	78
Rumeal Robinson	G	12	0	87	34	16	10	3	4	1	1	6	7	8	1	0	5	8	36
Horacio Llamas Grey	C	20	2	101	28	15	0	0	8	4	4	14	18	4	10	5	11	25	34
Chucky Brown	F	10	0	83	26	13	0	0	11	8	3	13	16	4	0	2	4	14	34
Ben Davis	F	20	0	98	26	10	0	0	20	9	12	15	27	0	4	1	3	16	29
Dexter Boney	G	8	0	48	19	6	6	1	8	6	3	3	6	0	2	1	1	3	19
Mike Brown	C-F	6	1	83	12	5	0	0	10	6	9	16	25	5	1	2	2	9	16
Tony Dumas	G	6	1	51	19	6	4	1	2	1	0	2	2	3	0	1	1	9	14
Totals		842	410	19855	6705	3143	1428	527	2125	1618	916	2376	3292	2067	664	322	1157	1727	8431

Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Kevin Johnson	G	70	70	38.0	49.6	44.1	85.2	0.8	2.8	3.6	9.3	1.5	0.2	3.1	2.0	20.1
Wesley Person	G	80	42	29.1	45.3	41.3	79.8	0.9	2.8	3.7	1.5	1.1	0.2	1.0	1.3	13.5
Danny Manning	F-C	77	17	27.7	53.6	19.4	72.1	1.8	4.3	6.1	2.2	1.1	1.0	2.1	3.5	13.5
Rex Chapman	G	65	33	28.2	44.3	35.0	83.2	0.4	2.4	2.8	2.8	0.8	0.1	1.5	1.7	13.8
Cedric Ceballos	F	42	32	27.3	46.4	25.9	73.7	2.2	4.4	6.6	1.2	0.7	0.4	1.6	2.2	15.3
Hot Rod Williams	F-C	68	66	31.4	49.0	0.0	67.2	2.6	5.6	8.3	1.5	1.0	1.3	1.0	2.6	8.0
Jason Kidd	G	33	23	35.5	42.3	40.0	68.8	1.0	3.8	4.8	9.0	2.4	0.4	2.3	2.2	11.6
Mark Bryant	F-C	41	18	24.8	55.3		70.4	1.6	3.5	5.2	1.1	0.5	0.1	1.1	3.3	9.3
Michael Finley	G-F	27	18	29.5	47.5	25.5	81.2	1.3	3.2	4.4	2.5	0.7	0.1	1.6	1.6	13.0
Wayman Tisdale	F-C	53	15	14.7	42.6		62.5	0.7	1.6	2.3	0.4	0.2	0.4	0.7	2.1	6.5
Sam Cassell	G	22	9	24.5	41.5	30.6	85.5	0.5	1.7	2.3	4.5	1.0	0.3	2.7	3.0	14.8
Robert Horry	F	32	15	22.5	42.1	30.8	64.0	1.3	2.5	3.7	1.7	0.9	0.8	1.4	2.5	6.9
Steve Nash	G	65	2	10.5	42.3	41.8	82.4	0.2	0.7	1.0	2.1	0.3	0.0	1.0	1.4	3.3
Loren Meyer	C	35	17	12.8	44.6	60.0	71.2	1.1	1.6	2.7	0.3	0.1	0.3	1.0	2.1	5.4
A.C. Green	F-C	27	19	20.3	47.7	0.0	64.6	1.2	3.9	5.1	0.6	0.7	0.0	0.7	1.3	5.7
Joe Kleine	C	23	10	15.9	40.0	100.0	72.2	0.9	2.6	3.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.9	2.0	3.4
Rumeal Robinson	G	12	0	7.3	47.1	30.0	25.0	0.1	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.4	0.7	3.0
Horacio Llamas Grey	C	20	2	5.1	53.6		50.0	0.2	0.7	0.9	0.2	0.5	0.3	0.6	1.3	1.7
Chucky Brown	F	10	0	8.3	50.0		72.7	0.3	1.3	1.6	0.4	0.0	0.2	0.4	1.4	3.4
Ben Davis	F	20	0	4.9	38.5		45.0	0.6	0.8	1.4	0.0	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.8	1.5
Dexter Boney	G	8	0	6.0	31.6	16.7	75.0	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.0	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.4	2.4
Mike Brown	C-F	6	1	13.8	41.7		60.0	1.5	2.7	4.2	0.8	0.2	0.3	0.3	1.5	2.7
Tony Dumas	G	6	1	8.5	31.6	25.0	50.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.2	1.5	2.3
Averages		842	410	23.6	46.9	36.9	76.1	1.1	2.8	3.9	2.5	0.8	0.4	1.4	2.1	10.0

Postseason - Player Totals:

Player	Pos	GP	Min	FGA	FGM	3PA	3PM	FTA	FTM	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Rex Chapman	G	5	191	83	41	48	22	25	17	2	14	16	13	2	0	15	14	121
Kevin Johnson	G	5	208	88	26	22	3	33	29	8	14	22	30	13	0	18	15	84
Wesley Person	G	5	163	53	25	33	14	18	14	5	28	33	6	4	3	4	5	78
Danny Manning	F-C	5	116	45	26	3	0	15	14	4	26	30	7	4	7	8	21	66
Jason Kidd	G	5	207	53	21	22	8	19	10	4	26	30	49	11	2	13	11	60
Cedric Ceballos	F	5	107	33	11	12	3	8	8	9	17	26	3	4	3	8	12	33
Hot Rod Williams	F-C	5	105	15	8	0	0	10	4	10	13	23	3	2	8	5	12	20
Wayman Tisdale	F-C	4	36	15	6	0	0	0	0	2	5	7	0	0	0	1	5	12
Mike Brown	C-F	4	27	5	2	0	0	8	7	2	2	4	1	0	0	1	6	11
Mark Bryant	F-C	4	36	10	4	0	0	3	3	1	3	4	0	0	0	2	4	11
Steve Nash	G	4	15	9	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	2	5	5
Loren Meyer	C	3	14	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	4	6	1	0	2	3	0	0
Totals		54	1225	413	172	145	51	139	106	50	152	202	114	41	26	80	110	501

Postseason Player Averages:

Player	Pos	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	Off	Def	Reb	Ast	Stl	Blk	TO	PF	Pts
Rex Chapman	G	5	38.2	49.4	45.8	68.0	0.4	2.8	3.2	2.6	0.4	0.0	3.0	2.8	24.2
Kevin Johnson	G	5	41.6	29.5	13.6	87.9	1.6	2.8	4.4	6.0	2.6	0.0	3.6	3.0	16.8
Wesley Person	G	5	32.6	47.2	42.4	77.8	1.0	5.6	6.6	1.2	0.8	0.6	0.8	1.0	15.6
Danny Manning	F-C	5	23.2	57.8	0.0	93.3	0.8	5.2	6.0	1.4	0.8	1.4	1.6	4.2	13.2
Jason Kidd	G	5	41.4	39.6	36.4	52.6	0.8	5.2	6.0	9.8	2.2	0.4	2.6	2.2	12.0
Cedric Ceballos	F	5	21.4	33.3	25.0	100.0	1.8	3.4	5.2	0.6	0.8	0.6	1.6	2.4	6.6
Hot Rod Williams	F-C	5	21.0	53.3		40.0	2.0	2.6	4.6	0.6	0.4	1.6	1.0	2.4	4.0
Wayman Tisdale	F-C	4	9.0	40.0			0.5	1.3	1.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.3	3.0
Mike Brown	C-F	4	6.8	40.0		87.5	0.5	0.5	1.0	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.5	2.8
Mark Bryant	F-C	4	9.0	40.0		100.0	0.3	0.8	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.0	2.8
Steve Nash	G	4	3.8	22.2	25.0		0.3	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.5	1.3	1.3
Loren Meyer	C	3	4.7	0.0	0.0		0.7	1.3	2.0	0.3	0.0	0.7	1.0	0.0	0.0
Averages		842	22.7	41.6	35.2	76.3	0.9	2.8	3.7	2.1	0.8	0.5	1.5	2.0	9.3

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