Suns Head Coach Alvin Gentry, who seemed to have brought his entire family to the game for a pleasant day out, revealed his true motivation for his attendance in the first period when he began jeering Stoudemire and Dudley with overly-sarcastic shouts of “fire the coach” and “draw up a play!”

When Gentry was reached for comment the next day, the veteran coach reiterated his point, “They should keep their day job. I think they’re much better at being coached than coaching. But I give Amar’e props for having the best assistant coach I’ve ever seen though.”

Gentry was referring to pop star Ciara, who due to her plane being delayed, showed up early in the second half to a nice round of applause. It wasn’t quite as dramatic as Willis Reed entering Madison Square Garden’s court during the 1970 Finals, but it certainly energized the arena.

Especially, the male contingent.

“Best part of the day was Ciara coming out,” Dudley remembered fondly. “She had the outfit of the day and she was Coach of the Year.”

Atypical praise from an opposing coach, but the leather pants-wearing R&B siren was certainly well-deserving of it. So much so, that Gentry’s 8 year-old son even commented.

“My wife put on some leather pants the other day and my wife asked my son what he thought and he said, ‘Mom, those are out of style,’” Gentry recounted. “So yesterday my wife said to him, ‘Ciara has got on leather pants, I thought you said those are out of style.’ And he said, ‘Not on her mom.’”

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@Ciara I had a great time coaching today, our team won!! Whoo whoo! Nothing like having fun for a good cause. Cc love the kids!!

I added fan photos:

UPDATE
I added better photo:

thanks *KaN*KaN*

Video:

According to Ciara’s people, the song – “Up In The Bank” – that was leaked this past weekend will NOT be on her new album .It’s a song she and Dream were playing around with in the studio.

credit: sincerelyciara.com

Ciara attends a game between the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center on March 3, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

RT @bcampos1: RT Just confirmed! @Common @BowWow @Ciara and Jamie Kennedy at Celebrity Shootout Sunday! Tix start at $8 at www.suns.com/celebshootout

Full poster here

I added more photos from Haze nightclub. You can see also a video from the red carpet below.

Looks like Ciara is in Paris right now, she attended the Gareth Pugh fashion show:

@HanneliM at Gareth Pugh with Joseph Quartana. Spottet Ciara, Puff and Leigh Lezark. No Rihanna this time.

According to some tweets, yesterday Ciara was in Magic City, it’s a strip club! Look:

@Obiethepromoter I just saw Ciara in Magic City
@sakinahmichelle Magic City going real ham right about now. Ciara in da building and it got straight ignant!! Lol
@yourgirlsam Ciara has STACKS of dollars on her table….making it rainnnnnnn…..#certifyreasontoloveciara
@alwayzeatnshwty tell me why i see ciara throwin that money all on these strippers here at magic city!lol wow!
@MsAsianEyes Ciara in this mufucka ( @magiccity ) tho’n money on bitches like a str8 G lol
@djsmoothmacon We live magic city Ciara on the Mic……Wow I love Atl….
@IronChefTone JUST LEFT MAGJIC CITY… ME, CIARA, T.A, L.O.S, & JDAILY… TORE THAT BITCH UP!!! 15,000$ DONATE 2 THE #NEGROCOLLEGEFUND LMAO YUUUP!!!

Hope we’ll get some photos!

Join us on Sunday, March 7th at 2 p.m. for the 9th Annual Celebrity Shootout, presented by Robert and Carole Machiz. Nearly 20 entertainers representing the television, movie and recording industries will descend upon Phoenix to play in this charity basketball game at US Airways Center. All proceeds benefit Phoenix Suns Charities, Suns Nite Hoops and Cox Charities.

This seasons participants include – Common (artist, Wanted, Terminator Salvation), Bow (Roll Bounce, Fast and the Furious), Ryan Rottman (Gigantic), Jay Harrington (Better of Ted), Josh Morrow (Young and the Restless), Nick Swardson (Benchwarmers, Reno 911), Jordin Sparks (American Idol), Brittany Snow (Hairspray, John Tucker Must Die), Ciara, Michael Clark Duncan (The Green Mile, Armageddon), Columbus Short (Stomp the Yard, The Losers, Armored, Death at a Funeral), Geoff Stults, Clark Gregg (Iron Man 1& 2, Adventures of Old Christine), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad, Kick-Ass), Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle), Nancy Lieberman (Hall of Fame, WNBA player, coach and commentator)

More info about tickets here.