The 1980–81 Phoenix Suns season was the 13th season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.
 At 57–25, the team had finished with its best regular season record.
 For the Suns, they had appeared in their first Finals five years ago but never could claim a divisional title as their own.
 Atop the Western Conference standings for the first time, the Suns had earned a bye in the first round of the playoffs.
 The offense was highlighted by balanced attack, with four starters averaging 15 points or more a game, but none greater than 19.
 This, despite a trade that meant the departure of four-time All-NBA Paul Westphal, who was swapped for fourth-year All-Star guard Dennis Johnson.
 In the conference semifinals, the Suns would meet the Kansas City Kings, a team they had defeated in the first round one season ago but found more difficult to handle this season.
 After a 22-point win in game one, the Suns would go on to lose game seven and the series.
 The Suns were led by head coach John MacLeod and played all home games in Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The 1975–76 Phoenix Suns season was the eighth season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.
 The season included an improbable run to the NBA Finals by a team that had never won a playoff series and made the playoffs only one other season in the franchise's existence.
 With a regular season record of 42–40, the Suns had finished third in the Pacific division standings and improved upon last season's win total by 10 games.
 The ensuing playoff run took plenty by surprise, including a seven-game series win against the Western Conference's top seed Golden State Warriors, a team that had finished 17 games ahead of the Suns in the divisional standings.
 The franchise's first Finals appearance pitted them against a 12-time champion in the Boston Celtics, whose roster featured three players from that season's All-Star Game.
 The 1976 NBA Finals would feature a memorable Game 5 triple-overtime thriller filled with controversies in which the Suns narrowly lost.
 Returning home for Game 6, the demoralized Suns would lose Game 6 and the series but not before endearing a generation of fans to the Suns franchise and showcasing a basketball from the desert southwest.
 The team's "Cinderella" season earned them the nickname Sunderella Suns.
 John MacLeod was head coach and the Suns played their home games at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The 2007–08 Phoenix Suns season was their 40th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The season was seen as the end of the "Seven Seconds or Less" era, after four-time All-Star Shawn Marion was traded midseason to the Miami Heat for big man Shaquille O'Neal.
 The Suns failed to advance past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since re-signing Steve Nash in 2004, leading to the departure of head coach Mike D'Antoni.
The 1986–87 Phoenix Suns season was the 18th season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.
 The Suns started their 14th season under head coach John MacLeod, going 22–34.
 Suns management decided to replace the longstanding MacLeod with Dick Van Arsdale, a former Suns player from the Finals team coached then by MacLeod.
 With Van Arsdale, the Suns would finish the season going 14–12 in their last 26 games of the regular season.
 All Suns home games were played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The 2014–15 Phoenix Suns season is the 47th season of the franchise in the NBA.
 It is also the last season when the arena would be named the US Airways Center, before it is renamed Talking Stick Resort Arena beginning in October 2015.
 With Channing Frye and Leandro Barbosa leaving in free agency and Goran Dragić being traded to the Miami Heat near the end of the trade deadline, no other player on the team had made the playoffs with the organization in previous years now.
 The Suns were in playoff contention for much of the season but suffered in the final weeks, partly due to injuries involving Brandon Knight and later Alex Len, and partly due to the amount of players added and taken away during the trade deadline.
 The Suns capped off the 2014–15 NBA season with five consecutive losses and losing 10 out of 11 games total (the worst season-ending stretch since its inaugural season), finishing 3rd place in Pacific division and 10th place in Western Conference with a 39-43 record.
 The Suns did not qualify for the playoffs for the fifth straight year, which currently ties the stretch from the 1970–71 to 1974–75 seasons as the team's longest playoff drought.
The 1996–97 NBA season was the Mavericks' 17th season in the National Basketball Association.
 In the offseason, the Mavericks signed free agent Chris Gatling and acquired Eric Montross from the Boston Celtics.
 With new head coach Jim Cleamons and re-signing former Mavs guard Derek Harper, the Mavericks struggles continued with a 4–10 start in November.
 With the team not showing any improvement, they traded All-Star guard Jason Kidd to the Phoenix Suns for second-year star Michael Finley, Sam Cassell and A.C. Green in late December.
 Gatling led the Mavericks with 19.1 points per game off the bench, and was selected for the 1997 NBA All-Star Game.
 At midseason, he was traded along with Cassell, Montross, Jim Jackson and George McCloud to the New Jersey Nets for Shawn Bradley, Robert Pack and Khalid Reeves.
 Meanwhile, Jamal Mashburn was dealt to the Miami Heat for Sasha Danilovic.
Shawn Dwayne Marion (born May 7, 1978) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 In a career that spanned five teams, Marion earned NBA All-Star honors four times and won an NBA championship in 2011.
 Nicknamed "The Matrix" by TNT analyst Kenny Smith during the pre-season of his rookie year, he was widely regarded as one of the most versatile players in the league because of his athleticism and ability to play and defend many positions.
 He was also known for his unorthodox shooting form.
The 1973–74 Phoenix Suns season was the sixth for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.
 It was the first of 14 seasons head coach John MacLeod spent with Phoenix.
 The season would also be the last for former All-Star forward/center Connie Hawkins, traded to the Los Angeles Lakers after appearing in nine games for the Suns.
 Charlie Scott would repeat as an All-Star, but who missed 30 games due to injury despite his NBA career-high 25.4 points a game.
 The team went on to finish the season 30–52, a career-worst for MacLeod and the franchise's poorest record since their inaugural season.
The 1987–88 Phoenix Suns season was the 19th season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.
 The team was led by new head coach John Wetzel.
 Having missed the playoffs in each of the last two seasons, Suns management made a midseason trade with Cleveland in attempt to return the Suns to postseason play.
 The trade would in part send All-Star Larry Nance in exchange for rookie Kevin Johnson.
 All home games were played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The 2010–11 Phoenix Suns season was the 43rd season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 For the first time in eight seasons, the Suns will be without the play of power forward Amar'e Stoudemire, a 5-time All-Star and former Rookie of the Year who joined the New York Knicks in the summer.
 The Suns traded Jason Richardson on December 18, 2010 as part of a trade that brought Vince Carter to the Suns.
 On February 24, 2011, the Suns traded Goran Dragić and the draft pick they got earlier from Orlando in exchange for Aaron Brooks.
 Alvin Gentry was head coach and the Suns played their home games at US Airways Center.

Question: The 2007–08 Phoenix Suns season was their 40th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Shawn Dwayne Marion, a four-time All-Star basketball player, was traded midseason to the Miami Heat, for which big man player?
Answer: Shaquille O'Neal