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2003–04 Phoenix Suns season
Head coach	Frank Johnson, Mike D'Antoni
General manager	Bryan Colangelo
Owner(s)	Jerry Colangelo
Arena	America West Arena

Results
Record	29–53 (.354)
Place	Division: 6th (Pacific) Conference: 13th (Western)
Playoff finish	Did not qualify
Stats @ Basketball-Reference.com
Radio	KTAR
Phoenix Suns seasons
< 2002–03	2004–05 >

The 2003–04 Phoenix Suns season was the 36th for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. After advancing to the playoffs the previous season, the Suns started off to a disappointing start under head coach Frank Johnson. With the team at 8–13, team management elected to turn to assistant coach Mike D'Antoni to take over for Johnson. Under D'Antoni, the Suns would lose 40 of their next 61 games and miss the playoffs, finishing sixth in the Pacific division with a 29–53 regular season record, the first time since the 1987–88 season the Suns recorded 50 losses or more. The Suns played their home games at America West Arena.

Before the halfway mark of the season, the Suns sent starting point guard Stephon Marbury to the New York Knicks and a lack of offense was felt the rest of the season. The Suns found the injury bug, with reigning Rookie of the Year Amar'e Stoudemire missing nearly 30 games (and the Suns his 20 points and nine rebounds per game), and oft-injured Anfernee Hardaway and Tom Gugliotta sidelined once again with injuries that had plagued the careers of both while playing for the Suns. Power forward Shawn Marion did not repeat as an All-Star, despite ending the season averaging 19 points and 9.3 rebounds per game and finishing second in the league in steals per game. Joe Johnson had a breakthrough year in his third season NBA season, leading the league in minutes played and providing the Suns nearly 17 points a game. The Suns also got younger, at quicker, at the point guard position when Leandro Barbosa was drafted. "The Brazilian Blur" averaged eight points per contest his rookie season.^[1]

By trading Marbury, the Suns were without a point guard to lead an improving young core of Stoudemire, Marion, Johnson and Barbosa, all 25 years of age or younger. By shedding the injury-riddled Hardaway and Gugliotta, as well as Marbury, the Suns ended the season with a need for a club leader and money at their disposal.

Contents

1 Offseason
- 1.1 NBA Draft
2 Roster
- 2.1 Depth chart
3 Standings
4 Awards and honors
- 4.1 All-Star
- 4.2 Season
5 Player statistics
- 5.1 Season
6 References

Offseason

NBA Draft

Main article: 2003 NBA Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	College
1	17	Žarko Čabarkapa	Forward	Serbia and Montenegro

Roster

Phoenix Suns roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Nat.	Name	Height	Weight	DOB (Y-M-D)	From
1.5 !G	10	BRA !	Barbosa, Leandro	75 !6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)	176 lb (80 kg)	1982–11–28	Brazil
4.0 !F	11	SCG !	Čabarkapa, Žarko	83 !6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)	235 lb (107 kg)	1981–05–21	Montenegro
1.5 !G	12	USA !	Eisley, Howard	74 !6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	177 lb (80 kg)	1972–12–04	Boston College
4.0 !F	4	USA !	Harvey, Donnell	80 !6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)	220 lb (100 kg)	1980–08–26	Florida
2.5 !G/F	23	USA !	Jacobsen, Casey	78 !6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	215 lb (98 kg)	1981–03–19	Stanford
1.5 !G	2	USA !	Johnson, Joe	80 !6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)	225 lb (102 kg)	1981–06–29	Arkansas
6.0 !C	30	POL !	Lampe, Maciej	83 !6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)	275 lb (125 kg)	1985–02–05	Poland
4.0 !F	31	USA !	Marion, Shawn	79 !6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)	220 lb (100 kg)	1978–05–07	UNLV
5.5 !F/C	14	USA !	McDyess, Antonio	81 !6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)	220 lb (100 kg)	1974–09–07	Alabama
5.5 !F/C	32	USA !	Stoudemire, Amar'e	82 !6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)	245 lb (111 kg)	1982–11–16	Cypress Creek HS
6.0 !C	43	USA !	Voskuhl, Jake	83 !6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)	245 lb (111 kg)	1977–11–01	Connecticut
4.0 !F	55	USA !	White, Jahidi	81 !6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)	290 lb (132 kg)	1976–02–19	Georgetown

Head coach

Mike D'Antoni (Marshall)

Assistant coach(es)

Athletic trainer(s)

Aaron Nelson (Iowa State)
Mike Elliott (Arizona State)

Strength and conditioning coach(es)

Casey Smith (Arizona State)

Legend

(C) Team captain
(DP) Unsigned draft pick
(FA) Free agent
(S) Suspended

Injured

Depth chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Reserve
C	Amar'e Stoudemire	Maciej Lampe	Jake Voskuhl
PF	Antonio McDyess	Žarko Čabarkapa	Jahidi White
SF	Shawn Marion	Donnell Harvey
SG	Joe Johnson	Casey Jacobsen
PG	Leandro Barbosa		Howard Eisley

Standings

Pacific Division v t e	W	L	PCT	GB	Home	Road	Div
y-Los Angeles Lakers	56	26	.683	–	34–7	22–19	15–9
x-Sacramento Kings	55	27	.671	1	34–7	21–20	16–8
Portland Trail Blazers	41	41	.500	15	25–16	16–25	13–11
Seattle SuperSonics	37	45	.451	19	21–20	16–25	11–13
Golden State Warriors	37	45	.451	19	27–14	10–31	12–12
Phoenix Suns	29	53	.354	27	18–23	11–30	9–15
Los Angeles Clippers	28	54	.341	28	18–23	10–31	8–16

#	Western Conference v t e
#	Team	W	L	PCT	GB
1	z-Minnesota Timberwolves	58	24	.707	–
2	y-Los Angeles Lakers	56	26	.683	2
3	x-San Antonio Spurs	57	25	.695	1
4	x-Sacramento Kings	55	27	.671	3
5	x-Dallas Mavericks	52	30	.634	6
6	x-Memphis Grizzlies	50	32	.610	8
7	x-Houston Rockets	45	37	.549	13
8	x-Denver Nuggets	43	39	.524	15

9	Utah Jazz	42	40	.512	16
10	Portland Trail Blazers	41	41	.500	17
11	Seattle SuperSonics	37	45	.451	21
12	Golden State Warriors	37	45	.451	21
13	Phoenix Suns	29	53	.354	29
14	Los Angeles Clippers	28	54	.341	30

Awards and honors

All-Star

Amar'e Stoudemire was selected to play for the Sophomore team in the Rookie Challenge.

Season

Shawn Marion led the league in steals with 167.
Joe Johnson led the league in minutes played with 3,331.
Joe Johnson finished ninth in Most Improved Player voting.

Player statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game

Season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Archibald, Robert !Robert Archibald*	1	0	6.0	.000	.	.500	1.0	1.0	.0	.0	1.0
Barbosa, Leandro !Leandro Barbosa	70	46	21.4	.447	.395	.770	1.8	2.4	1.3	.1	7.9
Čabarkapa, Žarko !Žarko Čabarkapa	49	4	11.6	.411	.188	.660	2.0	0.8	.2	.3	4.1
Eisley, Howard !Howard Eisley*	34	0	21.4	.345	.308	.830	1.9	3.4	.8	.1	7.l
Gugliotta, Tom !Tom Gugliotta*	30	3	10.1	.313	.000	.750	1.9	0.7	.5	.1	2.3
Hardaway, Penny !Penny Hardaway*	34	10	25.8	.443	.400	.857#	2.9	2.9	.8	.2	8.7
Harvey, Donnell !Donnell Harvey*	36	7	12.2	.473	.	.795	2.6	0.4	.4	.4	3.9
Jacobsen, Casey !Casey Jacobsen	78	13	23.4	.417	.417^	.820	2.6	1.3	.6	.1	6.0
Johnson, Joe !Joe Johnson	82	77	40.6	.430	.305	.750	4.7	4.4+	1.1	.3	16.7
Knight, Brevin !Brevin Knight*	3	0	6.3	.333	.	.	1.0	1.3	1.0	.3	0.7
Lampe, Maciej !Maciej Lampe	21	0	10.7	.489†	.000	.769	2.4	0.4	.1	.1	4.6
Marbury, Stephon !Stephon Marbury*	34	34	41.6+	.432	.314	.795	3.4	8.3+	1.9	.1	20.8+
Marion, Shawn !Shawn Marion	79	79	40.7+	.440	.340	.851#	9.3	2.7	2.1	1.3+	19.0+
McDyess, Antonio !Antonio McDyess*	24	14	21.1	.484†	.	.516	5.8	0.7	1.0	.5	5.8
Stoudemire, Amar'e !Amar'e Stoudemire	55	53	36.8	.475†	.200	.713	9.0	1.4	1.2	1.6+	20.6+
Trybański, Cezary !Cezary Trybański*	4	0	2.5	.000	.	.	0.3	0.0	.0	.3	0.0
Voskuhl, Jake !Jake Voskuhl	66	43	24.3	.507†	.	.740	5.2	0.9	.6	.4	6.6
White, Jahidi !Jahidi White*	61	17	14.1	.524†	.	.500	4.3	0.1	.4	.8	4.3
Williams, Scott !Scott Williams*	16	10	16.7	.525†	1.000^	.692	4.5	0.4	.9	.4	7.3

* - Stats with the Suns.
+ - Minimum 70 games played or 2000 minutes, 400 assists, 100 blocks, 1400 points.
† - Minimum 300 field goals made.
^ - Minimum 55 three-pointers made.
# - Minimum 125 free throws made.

References

^ Frank Zicarelli. "NBA's global games have Brazilian Blur abuzz". TheWhig.com. http://www.kingstonwhigstandard.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2809494. Retrieved December 14, 2010.

Standings on Basketball Reference

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2003–04 NBA season by team

Eastern

Atlantic	Boston Miami New Jersey New York Orlando Philadelphia Washington

Central	Atlanta Chicago Cleveland Detroit Indiana Milwaukee New Orleans Toronto

Western

Midwest	Dallas Denver Houston Memphis Minnesota San Antonio Utah

Pacific	Golden State L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Phoenix Portland Sacramento Seattle

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