Anyone who watched the 2010 NBA playoffs can learn a lesson from the Phoenix Suns and their highly entertaining brand of basketball. The Suns can flat out play, with gorgeous passing, pinpoint shooting and fancy dribbling. It’s often poetry in motion, and it has made Phoenix a fan favorite in the NBA. Still, like years before, the Suns failed to reach the final, and defense was once again their undoing. Steve Nash, Amare Stoudamire and the rest of the Suns put the ball in the basket plenty throughout their series with the Los Angeles Lakers, but they just couldn’t get stops on the defensive end of the court. When all was said and done, the Lakers advanced in six games, primarily because they played great defense when it mattered most. Phoenix, on the other hand, watched from home once again, all because they couldn’t.

Jesse Warner is 17, and yet when you ask her about the sport that made her father rich and famous, she speaks with the jaded weariness of someone who has been around forever.

“Honestly, I’ve gotten kind of tired of the whole football thing in general,” Kurt Warner’s eldest daughter says. “I’m tired of the injuries, how difficult it is to go through the ups and downs, and just the whole business side of things. I’ve been dealing with it my whole life, and I’m just sort of done with it. The whole thing has been kind of exhausting.”