Go, Los Suns! All praise to the Suns’ players, managers

by David Safier

I'm admit I'm not much of a sports fan, but I'm so proud of The Suns right now, I have chills.

Not only did the players, led by Steve Nash, come out with a statement against SB 1070, and not only did the management agree, but the team plans to wear "Los Suns" jerseys for Game 2 of the semis.

"I think the law is very misguided. I think it is unfortunately to the determinate to our society and our civil liberties and I think it is very important for us to stand up for things we believe in," Nash said of the bill. "I think the law obviously can target opportunities for racial profiling. Things we don't want to see and don't need to see in 2010."

Amare Stoudemire and Alvin Gentry also expressed their support for the decision with more of a focus on supporting their neighbors. "It's going to be great to wear Los Suns to let the Latin community know we're behind them 100%," Stoudemire said.

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Steven Nash was well aware of the perception the recent bill created for Arizona and that seemed to play a role in his decision, "It doesn't feel good to have people around the world and around the country look at our state as less than equal, less than fair. As proud citizen of this state, I want us to be held be held in the highest esteem. I think we have a lot of great attributes and a lot of great people and I think  we need to be very cautious in how we respect our civil liberties and the tone we're setting and the precedents we're setting moving forward."

Go, Los Suns!

The Diamondbacks, not so much.