San Antonio, TX -- (Sports Network) - Tony Parker scored 31 points and dished out eight assists, leading the San Antonio Spurs to a tightly contested 92-87 Game 5 Western Conference quarterfinal victory over the Phoenix Suns and into the second round of the playoffs.

Tim Duncan went for 29 points and 17 rebounds, and the Spurs finished with a decided advantage at the foul line on their way to eliminating Phoenix for the second straight season and advancing to the West semifinals for the eighth straight year. San Antonio, which has now won nine straight home playoff games, hit 24 of its 30 free throws and will face the second-seeded New Orleans Hornets, who completed a five-game series victory over the Dallas Mavericks earlier Tuesday.

Boris Diaw led Phoenix with 22 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, and Amare Stoudemire scored 15 to go with a team-high 11 boards. But the Suns, who were a woeful 20-of-37 from the line, committed four costly turnovers in the game's final minute and a half to bring their season to a skidding halt.

Phoenix dug itself a 3-0 series hole before winning in a rout at home Sunday, and simply didn't execute down the stretch while facing elimination on its way to bowing out in the first round for the first time since 2003.

Parker gave the Spurs a little breathing room with two minutes to go in a back-and-forth final stanza, hitting a jumper off a Kurt Thomas screen for an 85-82 lead, but Steve Nash answered with a difficult leaning three at the other end to bring the Suns back even.

Stoudemire rejected Parker's shot at the other end, and Phoenix had a chance to reclaim a lead it held at the outset of the quarter. But Nash, trying to weave his way through traffic, was stripped by Robert Horry, leading to a run- out for Parker. Nash fouled Parker, who hit 1-of-2 free throws for an 86-85 Spurs lead with 1:26 remaining.

On the ensuing Suns possession, Nash's pass was low and crept through the legs of Stoudemire and into Parker's hands. Duncan missed on a long jumper, giving Phoenix a reprieve, but Diaw, trying to isolate Manu Ginobili in the post, committed another costly turnover. Duncan rushed over to double-team Diaw, who lofted an errant pass in the direction of no one in particular, and the ball ended up in the seats with about 30 seconds left.

Parker then drilled a jumper from the foul line after coming off a Duncan screen, but Diaw atoned for his blunder by scoring quickly on Ginobili to make it 88-87 with 26.2 ticks to go.

After a Spurs timeout, Ginobili hit just 1-of-2 from the line, leaving the door open for the Suns to either tie or go ahead. But Raja Bell's inbounds pass tipped off the fingers of Nash -- who was being shadowed closely by Bruce Bowen -- and careened out of bounds for yet another giveaway. Moments later Ginobili made it a two-possession game with a pair of free throws, and once Nash and Gordan Giricek both misfired on threes, Phoenix's season was done.

Thomas finished with eight points and 12 boards, while Ginobili, who battled early foul trouble, was limited to eight points on 2-of-11 shooting for the Spurs, who won their 10th consecutive Game 5.

Nash totaled just 11 points and three assists, shooting 4-of-16 from the floor and committing five of his team's 13 turnovers. Bell scored 14 points to go with eight rebounds, and Shaquille O'Neal added 13 and nine, but was a big part of the foul-shooting monstrosity, going 9-for-20 from the stripe.

San Antonio held a 30-26 edge after one quarter, but the Suns opened the second on an 11-4 spurt and took their first lead on Bell's three, which made it 36-34 at the 8:11 mark. San Antonio tied the game at 43 on an Ime Udoka three with 4:13 left in the half, and then closed strong, using an 11-2 half- closing burst, keyed by Parker, to take a 54-45 lead into the break.

Bell hit a three just a little more than a minute into the third to pull Phoenix back within four, but San Antonio quickly pushed the margin back to eight over the next four minutes. Stoudemire finished in the lane to trim it to 60-58 with 4:45 left in the third, and Nash hit a pair from the line to tie the game less than 30 seconds later. Bell then knocked down a tough leaning bank shot for a 62-60 Suns lead with more than three minutes left.

Approaching the two-minute mark, Diaw picked off Fabricio Oberto's inbounds pass and took it the length of the floor for a slam, giving Phoenix a 67-62 lead on its way to a 72-69 advantage entering the fourth.

Parker hit a free throw to trim the Suns lead to one around the eight-minute mark, and Duncan put the Spurs up 77-76 with 6:43 remaining after grabbing an offensive rebound and receiving a return feed from Parker.

Phoenix went cold over the next few minutes, and both O'Neal and Stoudemire picked up their fifth fouls on tripping calls. The Spurs, meanwhile, pushed the lead to three on a pair of Parker free throws and then began the Hack-a- Shaq process. O'Neal hit a pair to bring Phoenix back within one, 79-78, then sank 1-of-2 to tie the game with 4:30 remaining.

Game Notes:

Parker topped 30 points for the third time in the series, scoring 20 in the first half and finishing 13-of-16 from the foul line to offset a 9-for-21 field-goal shooting performance...Phoenix, which was again without forward Grant Hill (strained groin) last lost in the opening round in 2003, also to the Spurs...San Antonio's only first-round exit this millennium was in 2000, when they lost, coincidentally, to Phoenix...Phoenix shot 11-of-24 from the line in the first half and has now dropped four straight playoff road games. The Suns are 5-3 in their last eight elimination games.