Stoudemire, Diaw and Horry are suspended

Phoenix All-Star center Amare Stoudemire and teammate Boris Diaw were suspended Tuesday one game for leaving the bench after Robert Horry’s flagrant foul of Steve Nash in Game 4 of the Suns’ Western Conference semifinal series against San Antonio.

The NBA also announced Horry was suspended two games for his actions on Monday.

All three players will miss tonight’s Game 5 at Phoenix with the series tied, 2-2. Horry also will miss Friday’s Game 6.

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Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki ended the two-year reign of good friend and former teammate Nash in becoming the first European player voted the NBA’s most valuable player by a media panel.

Kobe Bryant finished third.

Nowitzki received 1,138 points, including 83 of the 129 first-place votes. Nash followed with 1,013 points and 44 first-place votes, and Bryant (521) got the other two first-place votes.

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Former Sacramento Kings coach Rick Adelman has talked to the Houston Rockets about the coaching job held by Jeff Van Gundy, according to media reports.

KRIV-TV, citing anonymous sources, reported Adelman flew to Southampton, N.Y., for a meeting at the home of Rockets owner Leslie Alexander.

Van Gundy, who hasn’t won a playoff series in four seasons in Houston, has one non-guaranteed year left on his contract.

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Lakers forward Lamar Odom underwent surgery to repair the torn labrum in his left shoulder at Kerlan Jobe Surgery Center in Los Angeles and is expected to be ready for training camp in October.

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Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade had surgery on his left shoulder and left knee, and his status for the start of next season was uncertain.

Heat Coach Pat Riley said last week that if Wade had surgery on both the knee and shoulder, it “might take six months” to recover.

Wade sat out 31 games because of a variety of injuries -- primarily a dislocated left shoulder suffered in February.

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Milwaukee Bucks forward Ruben Patterson was accused of failing to register as a convicted sex offender after he moved into a new home last year in the Cincinnati suburbs.

Failing to register is a misdemeanor.

In 2001, when Patterson played for the Portland Trail Blazers, he pleaded guilty in Washington state to an attempted rape charge and was required to register as a sex offender.