List of Phoenix Suns seasons

The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Suns began playing in the NBA as an expansion team in the 1968–69 NBA season. In their inaugural season, the Suns posted a win–loss record of 16–66.[1] They participated in the playoffs only once in their first seven seasons.[2]

A home game against the Sacramento Kings in the 2006–07 NBA season

In the 1975–76 season, a rookie Alvan Adams helped the team reach its first NBA Finals, which they lost to the Boston Celtics 4–2.[3] Charles Barkley and Steve Nash won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award while playing for the Suns.[4] Barkley led the Suns to the 1993 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Chicago Bulls.[2] After signing with the Suns in 2004,[5] Nash led the team to three straight division titles,[2] but after reaching the Conference Finals in 2009–10 the Suns have subsequently experienced their worst period of on-court failure, missing the playoffs for eight consecutive seasons (the franchise's previous record playoff drought was five seasons, which happened after the team made the postseason in only their second year of existence during the 1969–70 campaign).

Despite their failures in the 2010s, the Suns franchise has the NBA's fourth-best all-time winning percentage,[6] winning 54 percent of its games, as of the end of the 2015–16 season.[2] In their first forty-three seasons, the Suns made the playoffs 29 times, posted nineteen seasons with fifty or more wins, appeared nine times in the Western Conference Finals, and advanced to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993.[2] As a result, based on their all-time winning percentage, the Suns are the most successful franchise to never win an NBA championship.[7]

Table key
Steve Nash won two MVP awards as a member of the Suns.[4]
AMVPAll-Star Game Most Valuable Player
COYCoach of the Year
FinishFinal position in league or division standings
GBGames behind first-place team in division[a]
LossesNumber of regular season losses
EOYExecutive of the Year
JWKCJ. Walter Kennedy Citizenship
MVPMost Valuable Player
ROYRookie of the Year
SMOYSixth Man of the Year
SPORSportmanship Award
WinsNumber of regular season wins
Win%Winning percentage

Seasons

Note: Statistics are correct as of the 2019–20.

NBA Champions Conference champions Division champions Playoff berth
Season League Conference Finish Division Finish Wins Losses Win% GB Playoffs Awards[4]
1968–69NBA——Western7th1666.19539
1969–70NBA——Western4th3943.4769Lost Division Semifinals (Lakers) 4–3[8]
1970–71NBAWestern5thMidwest3rd4834.58518
1971–72NBAWestern5thMidwest3rd4933.59814
1972–73NBAWestern6thPacific3rd3844.46322
1973–74NBAWestern8thPacific4th3052.36617
1974–75NBAWestern8thPacific4th3250.39016
1975–76NBAWestern3rdPacific3rd4240.51217Won Conference Semifinals (SuperSonics) 4–2
Won Conference Finals (Warriors) 4–3
Lost NBA Finals (Celtics) 4–2[9]		Alvan Adams (ROY)
1976–77NBAWestern10thPacific5th3448.41519
1977–78NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd4933.5989Lost First Round (Bucks) 2–0[10]Walter Davis (ROY)
1978–79NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5032.6102Won First Round (Trail Blazers) 2–1
Won Conference Semifinals (Kings) 4–1
Lost Conference Finals (SuperSonics) 4–3[11]
1979–80NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5527.6715Won First Round (Kings) 2–1
Lost Conference Semifinals (Lakers) 4–1[12]
1980–81NBAWestern1stPacific1st5725.695—Lost Conference Semifinals (Kings) 4–3[13]
1981–82NBAWestern5thPacific3rd4636.56111Won First Round (Nuggets) 2–1
Lost Conference Semifinals (Lakers) 4–0[14]
1982–83NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5329.6465Lost First Round (Nuggets) 2–1[15]
1983–84NBAWestern6thPacific4th4141.50013Won First Round (Trail Blazers) 3–2
Won Conference Semifinals (Jazz) 4–2
Lost Conference Finals (Lakers) 4–2[16]
1984–85NBAWestern8thPacific3rd3646.43926Lost First Round (Lakers) 3–0[17]
1985–86NBAWestern9thPacific3rd3250.39030
1986–87NBAWestern9thPacific5th3646.43929
1987–88NBAWestern9thPacific4th2854.34134
1988–89NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5527.6712Won First Round (Nuggets) 3–0
Won Conference Semifinals (Warriors) 4–1
Lost Conference Finals (Lakers) 4–0[18]		Kevin Johnson (MIP)
Cotton Fitzsimmons (COY)
Eddie Johnson (SMOY)
1989–90NBAWestern5thPacific3rd5428.6599Won First Round (Jazz) 3–2
Won Conference Semifinals (Lakers) 4–1
Lost Conference Finals (Trail Blazers) 4–2[19]
1990–91NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5527.6718Lost First Round (Jazz) 3–1[20]Kevin Johnson (JWKC)
1991–92NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5329.6464Won First Round (Spurs) 3–0
Lost Conference Semifinals (Trail Blazers) 4–1[21]
1992–93NBAWestern1stPacific1st6220.756—Won First Round (Lakers) 3–2
Won Conference Semifinals (Spurs) 4–2
Won Conference Finals (SuperSonics) 4–3
Lost NBA Finals (Bulls) 4–2[22]		Charles Barkley (MVP)
1993–94NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5626.6837Won First Round (Warriors) 3–0
Lost Conference Semifinals (Rockets) 4–3[23]
1994–95NBAWestern2ndPacific1st5923.720—Won First Round (Trail Blazers) 3–0
Lost Conference Semifinals (Rockets) 4–3[24]
1995–96NBAWestern7thPacific4th4141.50023Lost First Round (Spurs) 3–1[25]
1996–97NBAWestern7thPacific4th4042.48817Lost First Round (SuperSonics) 3–2[26]
1997–98NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5626.6835Lost First Round (Spurs) 3–1[27]Danny Manning (SMOY)
1998–99[b]NBAWestern7thPacific3rd2723.5408Lost First Round (Trail Blazers) 3–0[28]
1999–00NBAWestern5thPacific3rd5329.64614Won First Round (Spurs) 3–1
Lost Conference Semifinals (Lakers) 4–1[29]		Rodney Rogers (SMOY)
2000–01NBAWestern6thPacific3rd5131.6235Lost First Round (Kings) 3–1[30]
2001–02NBAWestern10thPacific6th3646.43925
2002–03NBAWestern8thPacific4th4438.53715Lost First Round (Spurs) 4–2[31]Amar'e Stoudemire (ROY)
2003–04NBAWestern13thPacific6th2953.35427
2004–05NBAWestern1stPacific1st6220.756—Won First Round (Grizzlies) 4–0
Won Conference Semifinals (Mavericks) 4–2
Lost Conference Finals (Spurs) 4–1[32]		Steve Nash (MVP)
Mike D'Antoni (COY)
2005–06NBAWestern2ndPacific1st5428.659—Won First Round (Lakers) 4–3
Won Conference Semifinals (Clippers) 4–3
Lost Conference Finals (Mavericks) 4–2[33]		Steve Nash (MVP)
Boris Diaw (MIP)
2006–07NBAWestern2ndPacific1st6121.744—Won First Round (Lakers) 4–1
Lost Conference Semifinals (Spurs) 4–2[34]		Leandro Barbosa (SMOY)
Steve Nash (JWKC)
2007–08NBAWestern6thPacific2nd5527.6712Lost First Round (Spurs) 4–1[35]Grant Hill (SPOR)
2008–09NBAWestern9thPacific2nd4636.56119Shaquille O'Neal (AMVP)
2009–10NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5428.6593Won First Round (Trail Blazers) 4–2
Won Conference Semifinals (Spurs) 4–0
Lost Conference Finals (Lakers) 4–2[36]		Grant Hill (SPOR)
2010–11NBAWestern10thPacific2nd4042.48817
2011–12 [c]NBAWestern10thPacific3rd3333.50017
2012–13NBAWestern15thPacific5th2557.30532
2013–14NBAWestern9thPacific3rd4834.5859Goran Dragić (MIP)
2014–15NBAWestern10thPacific3rd3943.47628
2015–16NBAWestern14thPacific4th2359.28050
2016–17NBAWestern15thPacific5th2458.29343
2017–18NBAWestern15thPacific5th2161.25637
2018–19NBAWestern15thPacific5th1963.23238
2019–20NBAWestern10thPacific3rd3439.46619


All-time records
Statistic Wins Losses Win%
Regular season record (1968–2020) 2,220 1,987 .528
Postseason record (1968–2020) 133 141 .485
All-time regular and post-season record (1968–2020) 2,353 2,128 .525

Notes
  • a This is determined by adding the absolute difference in wins between the leading team and the team of interest to the absolute difference in losses between the two teams, and dividing by two.
  • b Because of a lockout, the season did not start until February 5, 1999, and all 29 teams played a shortened 50-game regular season schedule.[37]
  • c Because of a lockout, the season did not start until December 25, 2011, and all 30 teams played a shortened 66-game regular season schedule.

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