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. 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. They participated in the playoffs only once in their first seven seasons.
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. Charles Barkley and Steve Nash won the Most Valuable Player award while playing for the Suns. Barkley led the Suns to the 1993 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Chicago Bulls. After signing with the Suns in 2004, Nash led the team to three straight division titles, 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.
Despite their failures in the 2010s, the Suns franchise has the NBA's fourth-best all-time winning percentage, winning 54 percent of its games, as of the end of the 2015–16 season. 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. As a result, based on their all-time winning percentage, the Suns are the most successful franchise to never win an NBA championship.

Table key

AMVPAll-Star Game Most Valuable Player
COYCoach of the Year
FinishFinal position in league or division standings
GBGames behind first-place team in division
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.
NBA ChampionsConference championsDivision championsPlayoff berth

SeasonLeagueConferenceFinishDivisionFinishWinsLossesWin%GBPlayoffsAwards
1968–69NBA——Western7th1666.19539
1969–70NBA——Western3rd3943.4769Lost Division Semifinals 4–3
1970–71NBAWestern5thMidwest3rd4834.58518
1971–72NBAWestern5thMidwest3rd4933.59814
1972–73NBAWestern6thPacific3rd3844.46322
1973–74NBAWestern8thPacific4th3052.36617
1974–75NBAWestern8thPacific4th3250.39016
1975–76NBAWestern3rdPacific3rd4240.51217Won Conference Semifinals 4–2
Won Conference Finals 4–3
Lost NBA Finals 4–2		Alvan Adams
1976–77NBAWestern10thPacific5th3448.41519
1977–78NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd4933.5989Lost First Round 2–0Walter Davis
1978–79NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5032.6102Won First Round 2–1
Won Conference Semifinals 4–1
Lost Conference Finals 4–3
1979–80NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5527.6715Won First Round 2–1
Lost Conference Semifinals 4–1
1980–81NBAWestern1stPacific1st5725.695—Lost Conference Semifinals 4–3
1981–82NBAWestern5thPacific3rd4636.56111Won First Round 2–1
Lost Conference Semifinals 4–0
1982–83NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5329.6465Lost First Round 2–1
1983–84NBAWestern6thPacific4th4141.50013Won First Round 3–2
Won Conference Semifinals 4–2
Lost Conference Finals 4–2
1984–85NBAWestern8thPacific3rd3646.43926Lost First Round 3–0
1985–86NBAWestern9thPacific3rd3250.39030
1986–87NBAWestern9thPacific5th3646.43929
1987–88NBAWestern9thPacific4th2854.34134
1988–89NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5527.6712Won First Round 3–0
Won Conference Semifinals 4–1
Lost Conference Finals 4–0		Kevin Johnson
Cotton Fitzsimmons
Eddie Johnson
1989–90NBAWestern5thPacific3rd5428.6599Won First Round 3–2
Won Conference Semifinals 4–1
Lost Conference Finals 4–2
1990–91NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5527.6718Lost First Round 3–1Kevin Johnson
1991–92NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5329.6464Won First Round 3–0
Lost Conference Semifinals 4–1
1992–93NBAWestern1stPacific1st6220.756—Won First Round 3–2
Won Conference Semifinals 4–2
Won Conference Finals 4–3
Lost NBA Finals 4–2		Charles Barkley
1993–94NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5626.6837Won First Round 3–0
Lost Conference Semifinals 4–3
1994–95NBAWestern2ndPacific1st5923.720—Won First Round 3–0
Lost Conference Semifinals 4–3
1995–96NBAWestern7thPacific4th4141.50023Lost First Round 3–1
1996–97NBAWestern7thPacific4th4042.48817Lost First Round 3–2
1997–98NBAWestern4thPacific3rd5626.6835Lost First Round 3–1Danny Manning
1998–99NBAWestern7thPacific3rd2723.5408Lost First Round 3–0
1999–00NBAWestern5thPacific3rd5329.64614Won First Round 3–1
Lost Conference Semifinals 4–1		Rodney Rogers
2000–01NBAWestern6thPacific3rd5131.6235Lost First Round 3–1
2001–02NBAWestern10thPacific6th3646.43925
2002–03NBAWestern8thPacific4th4438.53715Lost First Round 4–2Amar'e Stoudemire
2003–04NBAWestern13thPacific6th2953.35427
2004–05NBAWestern1stPacific1st6220.756—Won First Round 4–0
Won Conference Semifinals 4–2
Lost Conference Finals 4–1		Steve Nash
Mike D'Antoni
2005–06NBAWestern2ndPacific1st5428.659—Won First Round 4–3
Won Conference Semifinals 4–3
Lost Conference Finals 4–2		Steve Nash
Boris Diaw
2006–07NBAWestern2ndPacific1st6121.744—Won First Round 4–1
Lost Conference Semifinals 4–2		Leandro Barbosa
Steve Nash
2007–08NBAWestern6thPacific2nd5527.6712Lost First Round 4–1Grant Hill
2008–09NBAWestern9thPacific2nd4636.56119Shaquille O'Neal
2009–10NBAWestern3rdPacific2nd5428.6593Won First Round 4–2
Won Conference Semifinals 4–0
Lost Conference Finals 4–2		Grant Hill
2010–11NBAWestern10thPacific2nd4042.48817
2011–12 NBAWestern10thPacific3rd3333.50017
2012–13NBAWestern15thPacific5th2557.30532
2013–14NBAWestern9thPacific3rd4834.5859Goran Dragić
2014–15NBAWestern10thPacific3rd394328
2015–16NBAWestern14thPacific4th235950
2016–17NBAWestern15thPacific5th245843
2017–18NBAWestern15thPacific5th216137
2018–19NBAWestern15thPacific5th196338

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