Steve is on fire!

The Suns have yet to be outclassed. Even on their off nights, they fight and scrap for opportunities to win every game. Not one blowout among the 31 tip-offs. Phoenix was not at optimum on this week's trip. The offense was nowhere near its sharpest. And yet the Suns come home with a 3-0 swing that might top last month's 5-0 Eastern trip.

After gritty victories against the East's top two teams Sunday (Detroit) and Tuesday (Chicago), the Suns lost a 17-point lead Wednesday to Toronto only to ride Steve Nash's will to a 100-98 victory in his annual Canada homecoming.Just as he did Sunday against the Pistons, Nash turned clutch. This time, it meant overcoming a night when his body and shot did not look well. Nash was 1 for 8 with six turnovers when the Raptors took their first lead, 83-82, on a tiring Amaré Stoudemire's fifth foul with 7:18 to go.Nash, with two points at that juncture, scored 13 in the final 7:03, including eight in a 68-second stretch late after Toronto again took a lead with 1:23 to go."I was pretty stiff and just feeling slow and old for three quarters," said Nash, whose team was playing the back end of consecutive games and losing an hour heading east."Then, all of a sudden, I had a rebirth."After Toronto went ahead 92-91, Nash hit a leaning three-pointer in transition with 1:19 to go to start his final onslaught that continued even after Stoudemire fouled out."I can't think of too many guys who would one, take that shot, and two, make it," Toronto coach Sam Mitchell said.Nash picked up three more points at the line by getting Chris Bosh to bite on a pump fake with the shot clock winding down and then hit a pull-up jumper off a sideways dribble with 11.5 seconds to go for a 99-95 lead. After an Anthony Parker made a three-pointer and Shawn Marion hit one of two free throws, Darrick Martin missed a three at the buzzer when Boris Diaw stepped up with his arms outstretched to change the shot's arc.Martin, 35, had played seven games this season but ran the point for all of the fourth with T.J. Ford out injured, as is fellow starter Jorge Garbajosa. Still, the Raptors kept Phoenix out of the middle of the court defensively and came away with 22 turnovers, as the leather ball still is an obvious transition for the Suns."(Tuesday's last-second win at Chicago) wore on us a little bit, and Steve didn't have any pop until he decided not to let us lose, and that was nice," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said.The Suns are now 8-0 on the road against the East. It's the best road start in interconference play since Miami's 1996-97 team began with nine straight wins.