{"id":38854,"date":"2015-09-10T14:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T21:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=38854"},"modified":"2015-09-10T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T21:31:47","slug":"phoenix-suns-return-to-nau-for-third-straight-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/phoenix-suns-return-to-nau-for-third-straight-training-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns return to NAU for third straight training camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns will make their return to Flagstaff when they report for training camp at Northern Arizona University from Sept. 29 through Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled to welcome the Suns back to NAU and to Flagstaff,\u201d\u00a0said NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>. &#8220;Their presence on our campus puts an exclamation point on our educational partnership and brings energy to the entire community. We look forward to another great season together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 19th\u00a0time and the third consecutive season that NAU\u00a0has hosted the team\u2019s training camp. The team first used Flagstaff as a training camp site in 1986, coincidentally the first training camp as a player for now-Suns head coach Jeff Hornacek.<\/p>\n<p>Training camp\u00a0begins at the Rolle Activity Center on Tuesday, Sept. 29, and continues through Saturday, Oct. 3. The team will not hold a public scrimmage this year.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix opens the preseason schedule against the Sacramento Kings at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Talking Stick Resort Arena in preparation for the club\u2019s 48th NBA season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/phoenix-suns-return-to-nau-for-third-straight-training-camp\/\">The Phoenix Suns will make their return to Flagstaff when they report for training camp at Northern Arizona University from Sept. 29 through Oct. 3. &#8220;We are thrilled to welcome the Suns back to NAU and to Flagstaff,\u201d\u00a0said NAU President Rita Cheng. &#8220;Their presence on our campus puts an exclamation point on our educational partnership&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":38855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}