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Suns ruin Miller’s night

Reggie Miller's retired Pacers number is raised to the rafters. (Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)
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Reggie Miller's retired Pacers number is raised to the rafters. (Associated Press / The Spokesman-Review)

Shawn Marion scored 29 points, Steve Nash nearly had a triple-double, and the Phoenix Suns beat the Indiana Pacers 114-104 Thursday night to snap a two-game losing streak.

Nash finished with 15 points, 13 assists and eight rebounds.

Peja Stojakovic scored 25 points and reserve Danny Granger added 16 for the Pacers, who were again without ailing Jermaine O’Neal to start the game and watched their injury woes grow during it.

The Pacers played uninspired basketball despite watching Reggie Miller’s jersey retirement ceremony.

The chant of “Reg-gie! Reg-gie!” filled Conseco Fieldhouse one more time as Miller, surrounded by his four siblings, pulled a rope that raised a No. 31 banner into the rafters as the Indiana Pacers retired his jersey number.

“I never imagined that I would earn my way to anyone’s rafters,” he said.

Spurs 96, Lakers 85: At Los Angeles, Tim Duncan had 20 points and 13 rebounds, Tony Parker added 19 points and six assists, and San Antonio took command in the third quarter to beat Los Angeles.