Now sprinting and even dunking the basketball, Amar? Stoudemire is in the home stretch of his rehabilitation from microfracture surgery.

If he remains on track, he could be ready for a full-speed practice with his Suns teammates within two weeks.

While the Suns returned to practice Monday after a light weekend, Stoudemire began the final noncontact week of rehab with half-court, full-speed sprints on the sidelines before shooting free throws, jumpers and even adding a dunk to end the day. Another MRI will follow, which if it is shown to be unremarkable, will clear him for one-on-one and two-on-two contact drills early next week.

?If he can do that ? it?s close, it?s real close,? Phoenix coach Mike D?Antoni said. ?After that we?re talking about a full practice. We?ll let him go and see where he is.

?We?re probably looking at about another month and we?ll be ready to go.?