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Co-host of the @WolfandLuke Show, weekdays from 10-2 on 98.7 FM @AZSports + pre/postgame for the Arizona Coyotes.

Phoenix, AZ
Joined July 2009
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Luke Lapinski
4 years
Must be a @Suns game tonight.
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2 years
Someone who grew up playing hockey in Phoenix just became the first American-born player to ever score 60 goals in an NHL season.
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@LukeLapinski
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2 years
Devin Booker went from playing alongside Dragan Bender and Marquese Chriss to playing alongside Chris Paul and Kevin Durant. Without leaving Phoenix.
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1 year
NFL Power Rankings: 1. Miami 2. First Half Arizona Cardinals 3. San Francisco/Philadelphia 72. Denver
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Philly fans bailed on their own team early in Game 6 but then stuck around past the end of Game 7 just to boo the Dbacks’ celebration. Classic.
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3 years
Brooklyn’s favored to win the NBA title and just snapped an 11-game losing streak. The Suns haven’t lost 11 games all season.
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11 months
Paul Sewald trade already goes down as one of the best in Dbacks history. And it hasn’t even been three months.
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2 years
Jerry Colangelo just told us Mat Ishbia called him before making the KD trade. That’s pretty much the best way you can start your run as Suns owner.
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2 years
Devin Booker’s the best player on the top team in the West and his MVP odds are 55:1. Ok.
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2 years
The Suns play basketball like they're genuinely offended by the thought of losing twice to the same team.
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11 months
Turns out Philadelphia didn’t automatically win the World Series when they won Game 2 of a best-of-seven series. Weird.
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2 years
Chris Paul hasn’t even been here 18 months and it feels like he founded the team.
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3 years
You’re not a Valley resident until you take a rock to your windshield, get your windshield replaced, and then take another rock to your new windshield within 24 hours.
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2 years
Phoenix in the next seven days: -Super Bowl -Booker return likely -NBA trade deadline -Jae Crowder move imminent -Kevin Durant? -Mat Ishbia introduction -Cardinals might even hire a coach Let’s do this.
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2 years
The Suns have the best record in the NBA because we reject daylight saving time in this state.
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@LukeLapinski
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2 years
Chris Paul’s been a Phoenix Sun for 16 months. They’ve won 125 games in that time.
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@LukeLapinski
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11 months
Underrated moment of this Dbacks season is when Ryan Thompson just appeared on the roster one day in August and proceeded to never give up any runs.
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2 years
It’s 8 am and the Cardinals still have all their timeouts. This is big.
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2 years
Maybe the NBA All-Defensive Team should just be Suns.
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2 years
A) Go to Phoenix where you could bring the Suns their first ever title and go through the Warriors to do it. B) Go to Miami and live in LeBron’s shadow. Tough call.
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5 months
Sitting in the Mullett Arena parking lot. I’ve loved this sport since my parents showed me a Bruins-Penguins game when I was 5. I’ve played it my whole life. If this is the last time I ever cover an NHL game in Arizona it’s been an unbelievable ride. If you get it, you get it.
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8 months
Now Philly has a loss they can actually blame on Jonathan Gannon.
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3 years
Devin Booker is 19-0 in his last 19 basketball games.
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@LukeLapinski
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3 years
Maybe this is why Utah fans don’t like Devin Booker.
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2 years
This Suns-Mavs series is a reminder that the top of that 2018 draft actually ended up working out pretty well for everyone. Except Sacramento.
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11 months
There’s a subset of Philly fans who clearly never watched the Dbacks and assumed this was going to be an easy series. Probably the ones booing their own team and leaving in the 8th inning of an NLCS game.
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@LukeLapinski
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3 years
The Arizona Cardinals have been one of the most aggressive teams at the NBA trade deadline.
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2 years
Devin Booker isn’t load managing in a year when a lot of stars are, he’s routinely putting one of the top teams in the league on his back and he occasionally just puts up 58 points for fun. So again — whether he wins it or not — that’s an MVP candidate.
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5 years
Hazen: I want Frazier + 3 prospects for Ray. Yankees: No. Hazen: Fine I’ll just trade Zack Greinke to the team you’re trying to catch. All while the Dbacks are in Yankee Stadium. Bold.
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3 years
“Suns snap their season-high two-game losing streak”. It’s March. That’s ridiculous.
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2 years
Eliminating the Lakers two years in a row is a good way to start a tradition.
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25 days
The Dbacks are now: •3-0 since Ketel Marte got hurt •9-1 since Gabriel Moreno got hurt •14-2 since Christian Walker got hurt It’s not really supposed to work like that.
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2 years
The Suns should get to bring Willie Green to the next round with them.
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11 months
The Dbacks taking the Dodgers out isn’t a shock. Sweeping them and never trailing in the entire series though? This is getting crazy.
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3 years
Cardinals 8-2 with Rodney Hudson, 2-3 without him. Getting him back just in time.
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2 years
Simple solution for @KDTrey5 : join the Suns, win the title, take out the Warriors along the way, silence everyone that says he needs Steph to get rings. Everybody wins.
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11 months
But wait I was told this World Series would be boring because it doesn’t have the Astros, Phillies, Cowboys or Lakers in it.
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11 months
All the Diamondbacks had to do was go 4-0 on the road and now they finally get a home playoff game.
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3 years
It's like Booker watched the Cardinals game and decided Arizona fans have been through enough this week.
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5 months
Well at least we have our landfill.
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5 years
@AZCardinals The league finally ruled Santonio Holmes was out of bounds after a 10-year review.
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3 years
It’s like CP3 and JJ Watt could tell the Suns and Cardinals were about to be really good.
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3 years
16 games left and the Suns have already beaten every team in the NBA.
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2 years
Luka’s not smiling at the crowd as much now for some reason.
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2 years
Mikal Bridges and Chris Paul appear to have taken Sunday’s game personally.
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2 years
CP3 just did everything except lower gas prices. Saving that for Game 2.
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2 years
The Suns are so lucky Anthony Davis isn’t playing tonight. I bet they know it too. Oh wait.
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11 months
Do we even thank Toronto for the Gabriel Moreno trade at this point or just apologize?
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5 years
The Darcy Kuemper hat trick: -win -shutout -body slam a Tkachuk
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2 years
If Mikal Bridges has to get any better to win DPOY the Suns are going to start shutting teams out.
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1 year
Kyrie: Pay me. Dallas: We’re not sure yet. Kyrie: Fine I’ll meet with the Suns. They can give me $3 million. Dallas: Here’s $126 million.
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2 years
Suns getting a new owner. Cardinals pull off one of the craziest comebacks in franchise history. ASU changing coaches. Quiet 72 hours around Phoenix.
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2 years
Totally random reminder that Mikal Bridges is an unrestricted free agent in 2026.
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3 years
Nobody’s beaten the No. 1 team in the NHL more than the Coyotes this season.
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2 years
You drafted Isaiah Simmons in the top ten and spent all camp hyping him up. Play him. You took Deandre Ayton No. 1 overall and just gave him $133 million. Talk to him. What is happening.
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11 months
Desert Mountain, Yavapai College, ASU and the Dbacks. Merrill Kelly’s going to have to throw a legendary party if this team wins the World Series.
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3 years
Now we get 48 hours of national analysts who picked LA telling us we should pay attention to this Suns team.
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3 years
The Suns don’t just win games now, they demoralize teams. Milwaukee threw everything they had at them tonight and it didn’t matter.
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28 days
The Diamondbacks have lost two series since May. It’s mid-August. This is getting out of control.
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3 years
Ayton says he wants to rebound better, then immediately goes out and pulls down 19 rebounds. Is that really how this works?
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2 years
Eno Benjamin kicking off and making the tackle on the same play is why ASU’s going to be No. 1 in innovation again next year.
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3 years
Apparently the Suns needed to go 72-0 for Monty to win Coach of the Year.
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11 months
Brandon Pfaadt’s postseason starts… -Oct. 3: Dbacks first playoff game in six years. -Oct. 11: Sweeping the Dodgers. -Oct. 19: Saving the season in Game 3 of the NLCS. -Oct. 24: Game 7 in Philly with a World Series trip on the line. Is he even still a rookie at this point?
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3 years
There are no days of the week in this city right now. Just Suns Gamedays and Other Days.
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Last year the Diamondbacks went 5-20 in their first 25 games after the All-Star break. This year they’re 20-5.
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11 months
Has anyone in the state of Arizona even tried sitting down at all tonight?
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3 years
The Texans’ plan of covering Christian Kirk with Christian Kirksey began to unravel when they realized they didn’t have an AJ Greensey or DeAndre Hopkinsey.
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2 months
Dbacks should be on a nine-game winning streak right now.
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11 months
Anyone Who’s Watched the Dbacks All Season: This team could be dangerous in the playoffs because they’re so good at manufacturing runs with their speed. The Dbacks: Yeah we’re just going to hit home runs instead. Thanks though.
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1 year
So the #Dbacks rotation right now is essentially: -Zac Gallen -Merrill Kelly -Brandon Pfaadt who has pitched in 12 Major League games ever -Bullpen Day -Bullpen Day And they’re 8-2 in their last 10 anyway.
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3 years
Remember that time the Cardinals traded New York a 6th rounder for Markus Golden?
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5 months
Coyotes fans deserve the chance to see what kind of NHLers Dylan Guenther and Logan Cooley turn into. They’ve waited years for players like this.
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Top scoring NL teams: 1. #Dbacks - 701 runs 2. Dodgers- 648 3. Phillies- 638 4. Brewers- 626 5. Padres- 625 6. Mets- 623
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4 years
If you’re looking to add leadership to the teams in your city I’d say JJ Watt and Chris Paul are about as good as it gets.
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4 years
Kuemper's made 152 saves since Sunday. He can probably take the rest of the day off.
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4 years
Free tacos when the Dbacks score 5 runs. Free tuition when ASU scores 70 in the Territorial Cup.
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2 years
CJ McCollum’s going to be so sick of Mikal Bridges by the end of this series.
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11 months
Corbin Carroll/Christian Walker are a combined 4-for-36 and Zac Gallen/Merrill Kelly have a 7.02 ERA in the NLCS... and somehow the Dbacks are one win away from forcing a Game 7 anyway.
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5 years
Coyotes: We got Kessel. Dbacks: We signed Bumgarner. Coyotes: Ok we just traded for Hall. Dbacks: Hold on we’re calling the Cubs...
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5 years
The simple fact that fans with New York accents are going to be yelling at a guy named Kaapo Kakko for the next 10 years means we’re all winners. #NHLDraftLottery
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@LukeLapinski
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5 years
Coyotes in first. On pace for their second-best record since they got to the desert. This is the season hockey fans in Arizona have been waiting for.
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3 years
If the Cardinals beat the Rams and Lions they win the NFC West with three weeks left in the regular season. Can't say I expected that in August.
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3 years
Just a different buzz in the city when you have the top NBA and NFL team at the same time.
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4 years
Person in front of me just said they thought Scottish people were from Scottsdale. I’m not leaving my house for another six months.
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5 years
Joey Daccord wearing his ASU helmet in his NHL debut with Ottawa is instantly one of the best stories of the season. #SunDevils
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3 years
One week ago today the Lakers were openly laughing at the Suns.
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3 years
Matt Prater should never go anywhere without Andy Lee.
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10 months
Get it to Game 6, Merrill Kelly will get you to Game 7. It's still all right there for the Dbacks.
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11 months
Realistically the Dbacks’ path to winning this series was 1. Split in Philly 2. Take two of three at Chase Field 3. Take one of the last two in Philly And that’s still in play.
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5 years
Every time Kyler Murray does something ridiculous in camp I subconsciously bump up the Cards’ win total. I can’t help it. And now I somehow have them winning 25 games.
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2 years
Booker might actually be hitting another level this season.
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3 years
From Valley Boyz to Finals Fellas.
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@LukeLapinski
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2 years
Offseason checklist: ✅ Deandre Ayton stays in Phoenix ✅ Rodney Hudson stays in Phoenix - Kyler Murray new deal in Phoenix - Kevin Durant trade to Phoenix Don’t get left out KD.
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Luke Lapinski
7 years
Remember when Deshaun Watson was a good leader in college who won like every time he stepped on the field and wasn't the 1st QB drafted?
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3 years
So literally everybody on the planet except AJ Green saw that last pass. Got it.
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3 years
🚨Huge viewership numbers for Packers-Cardinals🚨 *20.4 million viewers (TV+Digital) -- 3rd highest TNF viewership in history of FOX package *Digital AMA of 1.8 million -- highest for an NFL game on record excluding Super Bowls & OTT exclusive games
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Luke Lapinski
4 years
Houston hands the Cardinals DeAndre Hopkins, the NFC expands to seven playoff spots and now Isaiah Simmons falls to them at 8. This is how you rebuild quickly.
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Luke Lapinski
5 years
This is the best the Coyotes have looked in a long time. I know it's early and blah blah blah. This is the best the Coyotes have looked in a long time.
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@LukeLapinski
Luke Lapinski
2 years
Chris Paul hasn’t missed a shot since Tuesday.
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2 years
Somewhere Pat Bev is pushing a door that clearly says “pull”.
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2 years
Meanwhile the Dbacks are just never losing again.
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