NEW YORK -- Anyone not a Phoenix fan (exempting Marlow's crew, of course) has to be at least a little unnerved by the menacing news on the "Wire" concerning Amare Stoudemire's surgically-scarred knees.
After throbbing and swollenness forced the Suns' Rehab Center into a brief work stoppage during his team's two-week Italian holiday, he has enjoyed three straight friction-free practices.
It's an on-and-off schedule that doesn't figure to go away soon. Fighting through such soreness can be a long and demanding highway of hurt.