High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1978–79 Phoenix Suns season was the 11th season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association and the first time they reached the 50-win mark to end the regular season. The team repeated a second place finish in an expanded Pacific division and the Western Conference`s second-best record, thus earning a spot in the playoffs, the franchise`s first time extending the season in back-to-back seasons. For the first time since the `75–`76 team, the Suns returned to the Western Conference Finals, before being dispatched by Pacific division champion Seattle in seven games. The Suns were led by head coach John MacLeod and played all home games in Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.