That taste of home has seemed to give Ben Gold a mental reset, and he’s playing his best basketball of the season for the ...

Ighodaro's senior season had plenty of challenges, but it ended with a state title and one of the most dominant performances in Arizona high school hoops history.

Gold’s parents flew to the United States last month ... as the starting big man after two seasons as an understudy to Oso Ighodaro, who is now in the NBA with the Phoenix Suns.

Oso Ighodaro is settling in nicely with the Suns. His high school coach saw NBA potential back when he was a freshman.

"Rookies Oso Ighodaro and Ryan Dunn remain bright spots, and the Suns are getting a smattering of better individual arcs. Devin Booker has emerged from a weeks-long malaise. Kevin Durant's shot ...

I play my role or whatever, but at the end of the day, it’s the NBA. That’s why (Suns rookie Oso Ighodaro) and young guys get to play. It’s always next man up, but I’m just glad I’m not ...

Now the Suns have a new center in Nick Richards, who was acquired from the Charlotte Hornets last week, for Nurkic to compete for minutes with along with Mason Plumlee and Oso Ighodaro.

(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Phoenix Suns center Oso Ighodaro, right, dunks against Charlotte Hornets center Nick Richards, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 12 ...

The Suns now have four centers in Mason Plumlee, rookie Oso Ighodaro, Nurkic and Richards. Budenholzer is sticking with his “earn minutes” theme when addressing playing time at that position.

“All those guys just got to earn their minutes,” Suns coach Mike Budenholzer said of what he plans to do with the Nurkić-Richards-Mason Plumlee-Oso Ighodaro center rotation. “That’s the ...