The Phoenix Suns will kick off the club’s 42nd NBA season with team’s annual training camp, which this season will be held in San Diego, Calif., the club announced today. The weeklong camp will move to the campus of the University of San Diego in 2009 and will run from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4.

“We very much appreciate the hospitality Tucson and the University of Arizona have shown our team the past few years and we look forward to returning in the future, but this season felt like an appropriate time to move camp out of town,” said Suns President of Basketball of Operations and General Manager Steve Kerr. “It’s not uncommon for a team to train away from home and San Diego presents an opportunity to focus on the task at hand.”

The Suns have trained at McKale Center on the campus of the University of Arizona prior to three of the last four seasons (2005, 2007, 2008). Phoenix trained in Treviso, Italy, as part of the NBA Europe Live Tour in 2006. Before moving to Tucson, the Suns spent 16 of the previous 19 seasons training in Flagstaff from 1986-2004, with the remaining years in Phoenix at then-America West Arena (1997-1998) and Veterans Memorial Coliseum (2003).