This “place” has always provided a great outlet for Suns fans to come chatter, fantasize, and bicker. Throughout the process you have operated this site for the fans, and have allowed us to freely (and often bitterly) come together as fans to commiserate, fantasize, analyze, and rant.

Thanks Phx Stan for your continued efforts at building a great community of fans.

I joined SB Nation mainly because of the boxing site, and just happened to stumble across this site as well. Although I just recently joined, in the short time I’ve been here BSotS has easily shown itself to be the best Suns site online. This is due mainly to Stan, but also to the many others who comment and post news along with their opinions. For someone who doesn’t have friends who follow the Suns (mainly Lakers/Bulls fans), spending an’ hour or so on a site with others that care about the Suns as much as I do is a nice escape for me. Thanks for making this community one of the best at SB Nation, Stan and the rest.

it’s the least i could do :-D

But seriously man, you’ve provided a haven for Suns fans everywhere and WE thank YOU for that.

and SBN!!

You know the players, coaches, and management will come and go. The bandwagoners will jump on and fall off. Paul Coro may find a better gig somewhere else. But the tru purple and Orange will always be here, as we have for so many years.

This is a testament to the fans and Stan’s passion-we need to grow, not so much in numbers, or trollers or people coming here to complain about this or that but more so in the population of die hard Suns fans that have been here from the beginning and will continue to be here regardless of what Kerr or Sarver does to ruin or make this team a champion.

Fanship is something sacred, us true Suns fans couldn’t give up even if we went 10 straight years without a playoff team…It’s in our blood and will never go away. I was born here in PHX and ever since I knew what a basketball was I was a Suns fan. I couldn’t quit if I tried, no matter what happens.

So to you Stan, for your all your efforts, thank you, and to the rest of us, who so desperately desire for this team to succeed, KEEP IT UP! Keep up your productive contributions on Bright Side of the Sun and your passion for Suns basketball! Things may look dark and confusing right now, but some day, some day soon we will all be here when the Suns reach the promise land-and we will all be able to say that we stuck with our franchise through thick and thin!

Go Suns, f’n go Suns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well said good sir. Well said indeed.

Let us hope this season brings hope for the future, but either way……..GO SUNS!!!!!!!!!!

Also, I love BSotS. Probably my favorite Suns site ever!

I think the readership is high thanks to links to thedirty.com

The Suns may be my favorite team, but I think I go to their actual site maybe 5 times a year. BSotS? I come here no less than 5 times a day. Why? Because we, the fans, ARE the Bright Side of the Sun.

Thanks to great bloggers, an active and intelligent community spanning the literal world, crack-shot news reports, and all this done on a very active basis makes this site is THE site for all things Phx Suns.

The thanks cannot go to one party alone. Its shared by all of us. From the front office of the organization to the players to the journalists to the fans. Thats Planet Orange for ya (even though I move to get rid of that name as a fan-base title; we could do so much better).

Thank YOU!!!

i love this site. so good man. GO SUNS

Thanks for inviting me into the BSotS fold. I’ve enjoyed every minute since coming over from Cut Goran Dragic. Love the community and thanks to all the readers who take the time to read my two cents regardless of how you feel about my opinions. I enjoy writing pieces that might not always be popular but (I hope) at least make you think a bit and Bright Side is a great forum for that. We all owe what this site is to Stan and his efforts – here’s to another year of Suns basketball – both the good and the bad.

Thanks to you too Stan, You have created and monitored a great community, I enjoy this site more than my facebook, and that is saying a lot haha

Now go and break down Kerr’s door and get us Curry. :)

And yes, I come here for all my Suns-related news. Why Google when I have you guys!

thanks everyone for the kind words…love fests aren’t my thing but you all made my day. Here’s to a great 09/10 season!

I freaking love this site. It’s like when you go to a bar and everyone knows you…uhh wait, I’ve heard that before…

All jokes aside, guys like CCArvin, hcblankscreen, Turambar, KnowGood, jburning, RD74, RottPhiler, rsavaj, ArizonaCactus (just to name a few) that have been posting here for a looooong time, is what makes this site so awesome. The new members are great too!

Season and draft is over and we can finally focus on our team.

Go Suns!!

Srsly ty for making this site what it is Stan. The emerging legitimacy of BSotS as a source of news is pretty amazing and directly attributable to your efforts.

That an independent source of Suns fandom flourishes here is so important for those of us that live outside the city of Phoenix. And that’s thanks to all the posters, bloggers and contributors here. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And thanks to everyone else who contributes too! I sit back and read a lot more than I actually post, but I enjoy reading everyones analysis, even if it’s just in the comments from the articles.