PHOENIX -- Cotton Fitzsimmons, who won 832 games in 21 seasons as an NBA coach, died Saturday due to complications from lung cancer. Fitzsimmons, 72, was a Missouri native who coached Moberly, Mo., to ...

Lowell “Cotton” Fitzsimmons and Tex Winter had at least three things in common. Neither used their given first name, both took over the head coaching job at K-State after serving as an assistant coach ...

A wise man once said, “Lucky is the person whose vocation and avocation are one and the same.” In the world of the NBA, this anonymous credo applies to pretty much everyone involved with the game, but ...

It's official. Cotton Fitzsimmons will be inducted, posthumously, into the Suns’ Ring of Honor. Suns chairman Jerry Colangelo said the honor probably will be bestowed sometime late in the upcoming ...

Lowell “Cotton” Fitzsimmons and Tex Winter had at least three things in common. Neither used their given first name, both took over the head coaching job at K-State after serving as an assistant coach ...

As the Phoenix Suns continue the search for their next head coach, The Arizona Republic thought it was a good time to remember some past coaches who are among the leaders in franchise wins and let ...

Candice Gonzales, an esteemed girls basketball coach at Mesquite High School, was surprised with the Spirit of Cotton Award from the Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury Foundation last week. “This honor ...