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If any more Suns games were nationally televised, America would need other network.

ABC, ESPN and TNT went to the maximum to book Phoenix games for the 2006-07 season -- 24 total.

The Suns and two-time Most Valuable Player Steve Nash will be on ABC five times, treatment only Miami, Cleveland and Detroit received.

TNT picked nine Phoenix games, matching what Miami, Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas and the Los Angeles Lakers received.

ESPN will show 10 Suns games, the most it is allowed.

The national love for Phoenix will start on the season's first two nights with a Los Angeles doubleheader of sorts.

On Halloween, the Suns will play in one of two NBA opening night games. They go to Staples Center to face the Lakers, last season's first-round playoff victim, on TNT.

Phoenix will hold its home opener on ESPN the following night against the Clippers, whom the Suns defeated in the second round of the playoffs.

The 24 national network games are one more than last season but triples how Phoenix started the 2004-05 season.