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Suns rookie center Alex Len missed his sixth consecutive game due to left-ankle soreness stemming from his off-season surgery and rehabilitation for a partial stress fracture. The Suns are again trying to have Len rest for an extended time. When he was shut down for a week in mid-November, he returned for 10 minutes in consecutive games.

» The Suns have played17 games and eight of them have come against the same three opponents — Utah (three), Portland (three) and Sacramento (two).

» The Suns played their eighth game in12 nights on Saturday night.

» Hornacek intentionally did not talk to Corbin, who he played and coached with, before Friday’s game in Utah because “it semi-drives me nuts when guys are out there BS-ing with their buddies while they’re warming up for the games. Maybe I’m too old school, but you usually don’t talk to the guys beforehand.”

» With Friday’s 23-point game, Suns power forward Markieff Morris has matched or surpassed his scoring career high of his first two seasons on four occasions this season.

» Entering Saturday night’s game, eight current Suns players were averaging career scoring highs this season: Bledsoe, Dragic, Gerald Green, Markieff Morris, Marcus Morris, Miles Plumlee, P.J. Tucker and Ish Smith. Of the other six players, three are rookies, one is inactive (Emeka Okafor) and two are veterans with unique circumstances ( Channing Frye after a year off and Slava Kravtsov after one part-time season in Detroit).