1991–92 Phoenix Suns season

The 1991–92 Phoenix Suns season was the 24th for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. The Suns were led by head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons, which would be the last of his four-season second stint as coach of the Suns. All home games were played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Guard Jeff Hornacek led the Suns in scoring, averaging 20.1 points for the season. Fellow guard mates Kevin Johnson and Dan Majerle were second and third in scoring, with Johnson's 19.7 points and team-leading assist average, 10.7, to go with Majerle's 17.3 scoring average. Tom Chambers, at 32 years of age, appeared in 69 games and averaged 16.3 point per contest. Hornaceck finished the season third in three-point field goal percentage, while Johnson's assist average was good for second-best in the league.

Majerle was selected to appear in his first-career All-Star Game, while by season's end, Johnson was selected to the All-NBA Third Team.

Offseason

NBA Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	College
2	32	Chad Gallagher	Center	United States	Creighton
2	46	Richard Dumas	Forward	United States	Oklahoma State
2	50	Joey Wright	Guard	United States	Texas

Roster

Phoenix Suns roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Height Weight DOB (Y-M-D) From 1.5 !G 15 USA ! Burtt, Steve 74 !6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1962-11-05 Iona 4.0 !F 23 USA ! Ceballos, Cedric 78 !6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1969-08-02 Cal State Fullerton 5.5 !F/C 24 USA ! Chambers, Tom 82 !6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1959-06-21 Utah 4.0 !F 21 USA ! Dumas, Richard (S) 79 !6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 200 lb (91 kg) 1969-05-19 Oklahoma State 1.5 !G 14 USA ! Hornacek, Jeff 75 !6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 190 lb (86 kg) 1963-05-03 Iowa State 1.5 !G 7 USA ! Johnson, Kevin 73 !6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 180 lb (82 kg) 1966-03-04 California 1.5 !G 32 USA ! Knight, Negele  73 !6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 175 lb (79 kg) 1967-03-06 Dayton 6.0 !C 28 USA ! Lang, Andrew 83 !6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 245 lb (111 kg) 1966-06-28 Arkansas 2.5 !G/F 9 USA ! Majerle, Dan 78 !6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 215 lb (98 kg) 1965-09-09 Central Michigan 5.5 !F/C 0 USA ! Mustaf, Jerrod 82 !6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 238 lb (108 kg) 1969-10-28 Maryland 4.0 !F 45 USA ! Nealy, Ed 79 !6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 238 lb (108 kg) 1960-02-19 Kansas State 4.0 !F 34 USA ! Perry, Tim 81 !6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) 200 lb (91 kg) 1965-06-04 Temple 4.0 !F 31 USA ! Rambis, Kurt 80 !6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) 213 lb (97 kg) 1958-02-25 Santa Clara 6.0 !C 41 USA ! West, Mark 82 !6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 1960-11-05 Old Dominion	Head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons (Midwestern St.) Assistant coach(es) Lionel Hollins (Arizona State) Scotty Robertson (Arkansas) Paul Westphal (Southern California) Athletic trainer(s) Joe Proski (Montana State) Matt Anderson (Northern Arizona) Strength and conditioning coach(es) Robin Pound (Michigan State) Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended Injured

Depth chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Reserve	Inactive
C	Andrew Lang	Mark West
PF	Tim Perry	Tom Chambers	Jerrod Mustaf
SF	Cedric Ceballos	Ed Nealy	Kurt Rambis
SG	Jeff Hornacek	Dan Majerle
PG	Kevin Johnson	Steve Burtt		Negele Knight

Regular season

Season standings

y - clinched division title

x - clinched playoff spot

z - clinched division title

y - clinched division title

x - clinched playoff spot

Game log

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Playoffs

Game log

Awards and honors

Week/Month

• Jeff Hornacek was named Player of the Month for December.
• Cotton Fitzsimmons was named Coach of the Month for December.

All-Star

• Jeff Hornacek was selected as a reserve for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game. It was his first and only All-Star selection. Hornacek finished seventh in voting among Western Conference guards with 271,180 votes.
• Dan Majerle was selected as a reserve for the Western Conference in the All-Star Game. It was his first All-Star selection.
• Other Suns players receiving All-Star votes were Tom Chambers (406,185) and Kevin Johnson (309,820).
• Cedric Ceballos won the Slam Dunk Contest, winning the competition with the famous "Hocus Pocus" blindfolded dunk.
• Jeff Hornacek participated in the Three-Point Shootout, losing to champion and former Suns teammate Craig Hodges.

Season

• Kevin Johnson was named to the All-NBA Third Team. Johnson also finished 14th in MVP voting.
• Dan Majerle finished third in Sixth Man of the Year voting.

Player statistics

Season

Playoffs

† - Minimum 20 field goals made.
^ - Minimum 5 three-pointers made.
+ - Minimum 10 free throws made.

Transactions

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References

See also

• 1991-92 NBA season