A seemingly meaningless Saturday night game between the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns could make NBA history in a unique way.

The Suns feature the Morris brothers -- Marcus and Markieff -- while the Pacers have Tyler and Ben Hansbrough.

Ben Hansbrough doesn't always get off the bench, but if he does, it would be the first game in NBA history to feature two pairs of brothers.

This is the first season since the NBA was still the BAA back in 1946 that the league has fielded more than one team with a pair of siblings on their rosters.

When the Suns acquired Marcus Morris from the Houston Rockets in February, the Morris twins became just the 10th pair of brothers on the same team. The Hansbroughs were the ninth when Ben made the Pacers out of training camp.

Steve Kerr agreed with the Phoenix Suns' decision not to extend a maximum contract offer to A’mare Stoudemire.

“Yeah, I was on board with it,” said Kerr, the former general manager of the Suns.

The Suns’ medical staff believed Stoudemire was a medical risk not worth taking.

“What I remember is our orthopedic surgeon Tom Carter saying that generally after six to eight years after a player has a microfracture there could be problems,” Kerr said. “We calculated he had a couple of good years left and that the back end of the contract could be a problem.

“You never know for sure but you go with your experts and in this case it was Dr. Carter.”

The Phoenix Suns could finish with their worst record since their inaugural season 44 years ago, but the team's veterans insist that there isn't any tanking going on.

Their players are disheartened when the US Airways Center crowd supports the opposing team, but they understand the conflicted support in the season's final weeks.

"I understand it because they want us to turn around as fast as possible," Jared Dudley said. "At the same time, I think the team with the worst record hasn't even won the No. 1 pick for a few years (2004). At the same time, individual players are playing for their jobs, playing for next year, playing for reputation. We have to finish it out the right way. Hopefully, we win some games. You can't always count on making shots. But playing hard and together you can do."

The Suns have sat Goran Dragic for their last two games. He didn't want to, furthering the notion that Phoenix is losing games in hopes of a higher draft pick. At 23-50, they have the fourth-worst record in the NBA.

"We don't look at it as tanking because we've still got to go to practice every day," Jermaine O'Neal said. "If you go out there, you really are trying to win. It's a tough period with nine games to go and everybody wants that draft pick. I guess since the women's team (the Mercury won the WNBA draft lottery's No. 1 pick). I wasn't even here and I heard that a lot last year — tanking the season to get Brittney Griner. If you're going to do it, then that's what you do it for because she changes the outlook of that team right away. I don't believe any college player on the men's side can have the same effect as a Brittney Griner.

"Based off everything you hear, nobody in the draft could make this team a contender right away. You have to protect your entity."

The Phoenix Suns will not make a decision on interim coach Lindsey Hunter’s future until after this season.

“We said all along we’re going to wait until the end of the year to assess the full body of work, and that’s what we’re going to do,” Suns president of basketball operations Lon Babby said.

Hunter, 40, is fine with not knowing his status beyond the final 13 games this season.

“The least of my worries is that,” he said. “I would not even want to talk about that right now. I’ve got bigger things to do. I’ve got a lot to handle.”

The Suns have lost 7 of their last 10 games, and at 23-46 are tied with the New Orleans Hornets for the worst record in the Western Conference.

Wesley Johnson sees himself signing a long-term contract with the Phoenix Suns before next season.

The Suns declined the 2013-14 option on Johnson’s contract, which means he will become a free agent on July 1.

“I think this is a longtime place for me,” Johnson said. “I told them from the jump that I wanted to be here. We’ll see how it plays out in July.”

Johnson has flourished since moving into the starting lineup, averaging 14.3 points on 49 percent shooting in four games.

“I’m just trying to live up to my expectations for myself,” Johnson said. “Being drafted No. 4 is a stigma that you get tagged with, but I just try to live up to being the player and person that I wanted to be when I played basketball when I was younger. I really have that mind-set that I want to be one of the greatest, so I am going to keep going.”

Marcin Gortat will miss the next three to four weeks with a Lisfranc sprain in his right foot, the Phoenix Suns announced on Thursday.

Gortat is averaging 11.1 points and 8.5 rebounds this season, despite voicing his frustration with the Suns' offense at times.

Gortat could miss the rest of the season.

Lindsey Hunter plans to get rid of the Phoenix Suns’ offensive system, which has been in place for much of the past decade.

Hunter changed the team's defensive principles after taking over for longtime coach Alvin Gentry, who was fired following a 13-28 start to the season.

“It’s easier to change the defense,” Hunter said. “Offensively, when you start messing with that, you’re messing with rhythm. You’re messing with familiarity. You’re messing with a lot of stuff that affects us. Slowly, I’ll implement some things. I’ll do it that way until the season’s over. Then hopefully everything works out and we can trash the old system and put mine in.”

Gentry was an assistant under former Suns coach Mike D’Antoni for five years, and continued to run a system similar to D’Antoni’s after he became head coach during the 2008-09 season.

“We can’t play the way Phoenix played in the past,” Hunter said. “We just can’t. We don’t spread the floor that way. We have Goran (Dragic), who is more of a scoring point and you’ve got to be sensitive to that. Getting our bigs going to the rim. Getting (Marcin) Gortat going to the rim and JO (Jermaine O’Neal) and getting (Jared) Dudley shots. It’s a different dynamic of a team.”