Grant Hill Among Divisional Winners Announced
10 years ago in Press
Suns forward Grant Hill is among the divisional winners for the the NBA Sportsmanship Award. (NBAE/Getty Images)
Hill Brings Back Memory of Breakfast Club
10 years ago in Press
By Stefan Swiat, Suns.com
The problem with consistency is that sometimes it’s taken for granted.
One becomes so accustomed to it, that it becomes expected. Therein exists the rub with Grant Hill.
Grant Hill’s Game Day Routine
10 years ago in Press
By Austin Burton
NBA players are mostly creatures of habit. Whether it’s the superstars or the guys fighting for roster spots, you’re likely to uncover a similar pattern of routines: from workouts to eating and sleeping rituals to post-game relaxation tactics employed on a daily basis.
Hill of Fame
10 years ago in Press
By Joe Gilmartin, Suns.com
When Coach Alvin praises Grant Hill, he is definitely preaching to this choir. And after last night’s squeaker over the short-handed Jazz he was singing them to the high heaven.
After giving due props to Channing Frye’s career night, Mickael Pietrus’s clutch play at both ends of the court, and another routine 20-14 night by Steve Nash, Gentry got down to the crux of the matter and, not incidentally, the real key to this victory.
Grant Hill has found the fountain of youth with the Phoenix Suns
10 years ago in Press
Josh Robbins
NBA Insider
People who wander through the desert hope to stumble upon an oasis.
Thirty-seven-year-old Grant Hill plays basketball in the Arizona desert and he's found the fountain of youth.
Hill missed 374 games during his disastrous seven-season tenure with the Orlando Magic, but he has enjoyed a career resurgence with the Phoenix Suns. He played in all of the Suns' games last season, and he's played a significant role in his team's strong start this fall.
Q&A with Grant Hill of Phoenix Suns
10 years ago in Interviews
For a stretch of about six seasons, it seemed as if injuries would put an early end to Grant Hill's basketball career. Now, Hill is 37 years old and coming off the only season in his career in which he played in all 82 games.
He spoke with us about taking care of himself, giving his career new life and what he learned from the adversity:
Hustling Hill Making an Impact
10 years ago in Press
Pulling himself up off the deck after taking a charge is nothing new to Grant Hill. Doing it multiple times in the Suns’ first full-contact session at training camp is another matter.
Still, that sums up the competitive spirit of the 16-year veteran, a spirit that is by no means tamed, even in intra-squad scrimmages.
Suns Tip Off Training Camp in San Diego
10 years ago in Press
Amid a chilly start to their first day of training camp in Southern California, the Suns certainly wasted little time working up a sweat.
Phoenix took to the University of San Diego’s Jenny Craig Pavilion for two practices Tuesday, which featured a little bit of everything, including plenty of running, shooting, instruction, weightlifting, stretching, drills and even a little five-on-five action.
Hill Tosses Kareem an Assist for Documentary
10 years ago in Press
For those who aren’t exactly the reading type (books, not blogs), NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 2007 novel, “On the Shoulders of Giants,” is going the documentary route.
The story of the 1939 Harlem Rens, an all-black New York basketball team who captured the sport’s first-ever championship, Abdul-Jabbar also traces the coinciding rise of Harlem, NY, as a cultural mecca – from athletes, musicians and thinkers whose courage foreshadowed the civil rights movement.
Grant Hill decides to stay with Suns
10 years ago in Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Grant Hill is staying with the Phoenix Suns.
His agent, Lon Babby, said on Friday that Hill decided to remain in Phoenix rather than sign with the Boston Celtics or New York Knicks.
Babby said during a conference call that the deal is for two years, the second at Hill's option, and he will be paid $3 million in the first year. Hill has played the last two years for the Suns and averaged 12 points in 2008-09 while playing in all 82 games for the first time in his 14-year career.