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This story is part of ESPN The Magazines Oct. 31 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today!Phoenix SunsOverall: 120 Title track: 118 Ownership: 117 Coaching: 110 Players: 120 Fan relations: 119 Affordability: 98 Stadium experience: 11 Bang for the buck: 100 Change from last year: -13The Suns fell 13 spots on our list and now are the lowest-ranked team in the NBA. This squad ranks 100th or worse in all but one category: affordability. In that, it is ranked No. 98. Thats ... encouraging? The roster isnt good, and ownership is worse. Put it this way: The Suns havent made the playoffs since a surprise trip to the conference finals in 2010, Alvin Gentrys first season. Gentry is gone, and Phoenix is on its third head coach since. Ouch.Whats goodAs mentioned, affordability is the best of a bad bunch, but thats only relatively speaking. A ticket costs slightly above league average. 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Now that weve revealed the Top 20 Moments in Indian Sport, its time to disclose how the list was picked. The first step was the most democratic way possible -- asking everybody on our desk to send in their top 30 moments. We collated all the entries - more than 75 -- and then whittled them down to a shortlist of 30, which we forwarded to each member of our panel.The panelists -- five in-house, 26 from outside?-- were given the shortlist but advised that they could introduce their own personal preferences, and we got a few of those too. Suggestions from outside included Paralympian Devendra Jhajharias world record, Anita Sood crossing the English Channel and Gama Pehelwan winning the world championship in 1911.Their rankings, once in, were given inversely proportionate values -- so No. 1 got 20 points, No. 2 19, and so on. There were some instances where the panellist couldnt separate two moments; the rankings were then put on a leaderboard and the weightage points split equally.Abhinav Bindras gold in Beijing was the outright winner -- winning both the maximum number of votes, as well as the most No 1 ratings. Other moments that were ranked No. 1 in individual lists were the 1983 World Cup win, Prakash Padukones All-England win, Viswanathan Anands 2007 world title, Indias first Olympic hockey gold in 1928 (though some panellists did point out that they ranked Indias first as an independent nation in 1948 at par), Khashaba Jadhavs bronze in 1952 and Ramanathan Krishnans 1960 appearance at the Wimbledon semifinals.Two moments narrowly missed out on the top 20 but were rated No 1 by at least one paanellist -- the Indian cricket teams overseas series wins in West Indies and England in 1971, and the 1911 IFA Shield triumph by Mohun Bagan.dddddddddddd (For the record, two other cricket moments - the 2007 World Twenty20 and the 2001 Kolkata Test - were farther down the list.)If Bindra made it to every panellists list, then Krishnans 1960 run was only in 12 out of 31 lists; indicative that all rankings achieved were fairly high. In contrast, there were six moments beyond the 20 that had as many or more votes than this one. Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathis run of four successive Grand Slam doubles finals in 1999 featured on 17 lists, and Vijender Singhs 2012 Olympic bronze got 16 votes, but both missed out on the top 20 as their cumulative points werent high enough.Lastly, if we calculate a weighted mean of all votes received and how each moment performed with respect to that mean, there were only eight moments whose average ratings were so high that they compensated for appearing on relatively fewer lists. In ascending order of mean votes, these moments were those involving Krishnan, Anju Bobby George, Wilson Jones, Indias 1962 Asian Games winning football team, Pullela Gopichand, Jadhav, Leander Paes and the 1928 Olympic hockey team.These were the tough, often excruciating, parts of this exercise. The huge positive was the groundswell of goodwill from our panel and the furious debates the list generated and will hopefully continue to generate in the days to come. ' ' '