Suns setting: Warriors beatdown, Michael Malone firing reveal hard truths with Phoenix on brink of missing play-in

If nothing in this miserable season had already hammered home how dead the Phoenix Suns were, Tuesday's humiliating 133-95 loss to the Golden State Warriors did the trick. This corpse has been lifeless for weeks now, slowly bleeding out onto the hardwood, and this latest beatdown -- with the team on the brink of missing the play-in entirely -- all but confirmed their pulse has long since expired.
All that awaits now is recording the official time of death, which should be sometime around 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday night once the Oklahoma City Thunder roll into town.
For the seventh game in a row, the Suns lost in a borderline must-win scenario. And for the seventh straight time, they lost by do...