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Steve skeptical of Suns' plan to sit him
2008-09-03 13:05:00
"It's August, and Steve Nash is listening to his iPod as he walks to his car, so he really doesn't want to talk.But I give it a shot anyway."Can I get you for five minutes?" I ask."You've got three," Nash says.Nash isn't big-timing me. Nor is he being rude. He simply doesn't like to do interviews until after Labor Day. He figures if he does one, he'll have to do 100, and then he'll never get away.But he's just finished his workout at US Airways Center, and I'm standing right in front of him, so he acquiesces.Knowing my time limit, I come right to the point."What do you think of (general manager) Steve Kerr's plan to limit you to 70 games next season?"Nash gives me that "you're-not-going-to-get-much-out-of-me smile" and then proceeds to, well, not give me much."We'll see how it goes," he says. "Those are great intentions, but is it realistic? We'll see."Nash, 34, is receptive to the idea of getting more rest. He played in 81 of 82 games last year and averaged 34.3 minute...
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celebrity soccer helps Nash recover for the next NBA season?
2008-07-19 09:50:00
I was saddened to learn yesterday morning that Team Canada was spanked by Slovenia at the Olympic basketball qualifier in Greece.I think Canada would have done a lot better if Steve Nash was in the lineup, but Nash, of course, can't play because he is tired and banged up from playing so many seasons in the NBA.Somehow, veteran NBAers like Dirk Nowitzki, Kobe Bryant, and the Raptors' own Rasho Nesterovic are able to drag their beaten-down bodies to pre-Olympic tournaments. Hell, former Raptors forward Jorge Garbajosa probably has kissed his NBA career away as a result of his commitment to Spanish basketball.But Nash says he's too tired to play for Canada, and I guess we have to give him the benefit of the doubt. I certainly do, and I'm pleased that Steve is taking steps to rest and recuperate for the coming NBA season, like when he played in a celebrity soccer game a couple of weeks ago in New York City.I, for one, encourage Steve to take further steps in his pursuit of rest and ...
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Nash: Adversity helps for playoffs
2008-01-04 19:30:00
The Suns had some humbug to their holidays, but in Boston it has been Christmas nearly every day of the season.Fans remember what that was like. It was three years ago, when Phoenix's franchise turnaround shocked the NBA - and itself - with a 31-4 start. The buzz lasted another year when the Suns disproved beliefs that they would not contend without Amaré Stoudemire.These days, Phoenix's 22-9 record and virtual tie for first place in the West causes consternation among fans and dissatisfaction in the locker room because it is not at the championship standard. OAS_AD('ArticleFlex_1') Nobody is having as much fun - and so be it, Suns guard Steve Nash says. That happens when you win as much as this era of Suns, who could beat Seattle at home Thursday night for their 200th victory since Nash's 2004 return to Phoenix. Just like the club's 40th anniversary that it celebrates Thursday night, these Suns are grown up."That's forever gone," Nash said of that 2004-05 seaso...
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Canada needs Nash
2007-09-15 15:49:00
After qualifying for next year's Beijing showdown tournament, which could end up in Vancouver, Canadian men's basketball coach Leo Rautins is very happy with how his young team has come along.They'll still have a long way to go to qualify, but if they do Rautins says he'll have a serious offer to make to Canada 's best player, one Steve Nash."I think it's our obligation to qualify, and if we do we would then be in position to offer Steve the opportunity to play with what we believe will unquestionably be the most talented guys he will ever have played with in a Canadian jersey," said Rautins."If he wanted to come along next year and join us to make the [qualification] process that much easier, so much the better. But he knows we're here and I do my best to keep him informed of everything we're doing."I talk to him formally once a year about the issue. During the season when I see him [Rautins is also the TV colour man on some Raptor NBA games] I just say 'hi', ask him how h...
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2007-08-03 23:25:00
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Nash: Zach Will Help Knicks
2007-07-07 23:35:00
Steve Nash knows a few things about being a premier offensive player in the NBA and he seems to think the Knicks got one when they traded for Zach Randolph last week.When asked what he thought the forward brought to the Knicks, the former MVP said, "About 20 points and 10 rebounds [per game] off the bat," Nash said. "He's a great low-post scorer and can hit a mid-range shot and he can rebound."Isiah Thomas took a chance on the talented, but troubled, Randolph, giving up Channing Frye and Steve Francis in the transaction. Nash, who was at Kean University in Union, N.J. yesterday at a Nike basketball clinic, said he thought the deal was worth the risk."Offensively, he's going to give them a lot," Nash said. "They don't grow on trees, guys who give that to a team."Nash also said he wasn't holding his breath waiting for stars like Kobe Bryant and Kevin Garnett to be traded."Those things are mostly all just talk," Nash said. "Big trades these days are so hard to pull off. I expect ou...

Nash honoured for helping children
2007-06-17 21:07:00
Suns guard Steve Nash is the 2007 recipient of the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship award, presented annually by the Professional Basketball Writers Association.Named after the former NBA commissioner, the award recognizes an NBA player or coach for outstanding community service and commitment to serve and give of his time outside the arena.Nash has helped countless children through the Steve Nash Foundation, formed in 2001 with the goal of assisting underserved kids in their health, personal development, education and enjoyment of life.The foundation?s focus areas of Phoenix and Nash?s home in British Columbia have been expanded to other countries including equipping a neonatal intensive care ward ? including incubators that were in dire need ? in Paraguay.Nash is the second Suns player to win the Kennedy award, joining Kevin Johnson in 1991.The Suns? media relations staff, led by vice president of basketball communications Julie Fie, has won the inaugural PBWA?s Media Relations Staff...
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Horry welcome at Nash's charity game
2007-05-31 19:59:00
Steve Nash is a charitable guy. How charitable?The Phoenix Suns' point guard said San Antonio Spurs villain Robert Horry would be welcome at his celebrity all-star game in Vancouver in the summer."He is always invited," Nash said. "I have to admit, even though he put me down on the blueline there, he's a great guy. He was a teammate and I really like Robert. I've been a few seconds away from snapping a few times myself. It really wasn't that bad, what he did."Horry sent Nash flying into the scorer's table with a bodycheck in the dying moments of the Suns' win in the fourth game of their hotly contested National Basketball Association Western Conference semi-final playoff series.Horry was suspended for two games, but the Suns' Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw were also suspended, one game each, for leaving the bench, even though neither took part in the ensuing scrum. The suddenly undermanned Suns lost the fifth game at home and had their dreams of an NBA title dashed when they...
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Nash, Stoudemire picked for 1st team
2007-05-12 19:36:00
The Suns double-dipped on an All-NBA first team that took some double takes Thursday.Phoenix's Steve Nash and Amaré Stoudemire became the first teammates to make first team since Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal did in their final season as Los Angeles Lakers teammates three years ago. This year's All-NBA oddities included a first team of all West players, including San Antonio's Tim Duncan, Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki and Bryant.Nash was the only unanimous choice while Nowitzki, the projected Most Valuable Player winner, was left off the first team by four of 129 voters. There was Stoudemire as the All-NBA first-team center even though he has not been fond of the center label. Stoudemire had 36 first-team votes and Houston's Yao Ming had 38, meaning 55 voters picked someone else as first-team center, likely fudging for a forward-center such as Duncan.Stoudemire was asked whether he is comfortable with being a center now that it has made him All-NBA first team, an honor that pleased...
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Escape artist Nash breaks out of trap
2007-04-30 22:52:00
Raja Bell looked down at the box score. A reporter wanted to know which player had the better game in Phoenix?s 113-100 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers Sunday.Was it Amaré Stoudemire with his 27 points and playoff career-high 21 rebounds? Or Steve Nash with his 23 assists, a personal best and one shy of an NBA playoff record. ?Tough call,? Bell said. ?I would say it was a draw.? A political answer, but a good one, too. It?s hard to know who to single out. The Suns? superstars did everything at the Staples Center but sell popcorn and mop the floor. And while we?re handing out compliments, how about Shawn Marion, who had 22 points and 11 rebounds in a wearying 43 minutes of play and helped limit Kobe Bryant to just one field goal in the fourth quarter? The NBA?s All-Defensive team comes out today. If Marion?s not on it, a few voters need to turn in their ballots for good. As good as Marion was, and as physically dominating as Stoudemire was, it?s Nash who deserves the biggest roun...
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Nash points the way again
2007-04-17 23:33:00
This much is clear from informal polling: Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki will be the top three finishers in the NBA MVP balloting. The order shown above is the journalistically responsible, alphabetical listing.The real order of finish? It'll very likely be the exact opposite ? and a journalistically irresponsible, wrong listing. That's because Nowitzki has not had the kind of dominant individual season to deserve it ? especially when Nash has been much more of a leader for a team nearly as good and Bryant has again ditched his contemporaries to play one-on-one with Wilt Chamberlain.The writers and broadcasters who vote for this award have gotten lazy. It slipped back in 1997 when Karl Malone was gifted an MVP award while Michael Jordan was still playing and winning everything. Here's an idea: A journalist should prioritize accuracy over generosity when it comes to his job.The trap people are falling into now is that Nowitzki's team finally ascended to the best record...
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Kids playing PG must watch Nash
2007-03-30 19:35:00
Once in a blue moon, a sports radio topic gets me incensed. It happened to me this past Friday during my own afternoon drive show which I co-host with Mark Asher on Sports 620 KTAR. And it had to do with Steve Nash.Ash and I had decided to create a topic out of a New York Times story the day before that had pointed out the lack of true point guards in college basketball. The story said that only two players in college basketball this year averaged 7 assists per game. In 2000, 11 players averaged that many assists. The article pointed out the Allen Iverson effect, that his crossover dribble and ability to score has many of today's kids wanting to score first.It made sense. Michael Jordan was said to have a negative effect on the mid-range jump shot as more and more high school and college players looked to fly through the air and dunk. That is part of the reason for the foreign invasion in the NBA today and the USA's lack of success in international tournaments. There just aren't ...
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Wolves could learn from Nash
2007-03-24 20:26:00
Given the Timberwolves' identity crisis at point guard these days, the Phoenix Suns are the last team in the NBA they want to see right now.First, there's the intimidating presence of Steve Nash, an unimpressive physical presence who somehow has become the league's premier playmaker and a two-time reigning MVP in hot pursuit of a third.Next, there's familiar face of Marcus Banks anchored to the Phoenix bench, possibly inactive in street clothes, a reminder of how badly the Wolves whiffed when they designated the sturdy, confident and ultimately ineffective guard as the key to their January 2006 trade with Boston.Finally, there are the three point guards currently running a weave through the position: Randy Foye, Mike James and Troy Hudson. Not one of them has handled the job to coach Randy Wittman's satisfaction or to the team's ultimate standards (winning). That's why, after practice at the Suns' facility Monday, it seemed a toss-up as to which one might start tonight, whic...
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Nash leads MVP race by a hair!
2007-03-18 16:46:00
If Dirk Nowitzki doesn?t win his first MVP award, he can?t blame his best friend for stealing it.Nowitzki tossed the reward up for grabs in Phoenix?s double-overtime win over Dallas Wednesday, and Steve Nash simply did what Steve Nash does ? whatever it takes to get the job done:? Goad Josh Howard into a silly 3-point foul to give his all-but-dead team one last life? Check.? Hit the stone cold 3-pointer to force overtime? Check.? Turn a turnover inside out by hustling to his feet and racing over to take a charge? Check.? Cheat the Mavs out of a game-tying set play late in the second overtime by (1) stealing the ball, (2) throwing it off Jason Terry and (3) contorting his body so it didn?t hit him out of bounds? Check. Check. Check.Then there are the things Nash didn?t do (and here?s where Dirk might want to take notes) ? things that separate superstars from MVPs:? Brick a game-clinching free throw? Nope.? Run out of gas in the first overtime? Nope.? Whine himself to a technical foul...
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Steve posting career numbers
2007-02-08 20:10:00
He?s in the midst of his sixth straight season engineering the NBA?s most prolific offense. He?s going to his fifth All-Star game and putting up the kind of numbers that make a third straight NBA Most Valuable Player award a realistic possibility. He has the Suns pointed toward a franchise record for wins and battling for the league?s best record.Steve Nash thinks all of that is very nice. And he couldn?t care less.Nash turned 33 years old on Wednesday ? young for almost every walk of life but his chosen profession. And since he returned for battle in September with a shaved head, a supremely toned physique and a one-track mind, Nash has made it clear to anyone listening that anything short of an NBA title ? or exhausting every reserve in the pursuit ? is unacceptable.As the Suns reeled off winning streaks of 15 and 17 games and one of the best 35-game runs in league history (33-2), a less kind, less gentle Nash muted his praise and took every opportunity to point out slippage and s...
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Nash made quite a journey
2007-02-05 19:05:00
If anyone understands how it is that Steve Nash became Superman -- and really, how can it be explained? -- maybe Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo is the guy.He was smart enough to draft Nash, dumb enough to trade him away, smart enough to know he needed him back in free agency.But to get to today, where Nash may be on his way to a third consecutive NBA MVP award, you have to go back with Colangelo to the beginning. Back to the 1996 NCAA basketball regionals."Danny Ainge (then Phoenix coach) liked him from the beginning," Colangelo said. "I went to see him, he was what we call fleshy. He was somewhat pudgy. There was some doubt as to whether he was going to be able to keep up."The first game of those regionals, he torched the guy he was playing against and his team won. The next day, Jacque Vaughn completely locked him up and he was a good defensive player. So you're thinking, if he can get shut down like this, can he get by with faster, quicker guards?"Still Ainge wanted him. He kept tal...
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Nash in for 3rd MVP?
2007-01-28 21:45:00
Tribune sports reporter Mike Tulumello takes a look at the top candidates for the NBA?s MVP award as the season hits its midway point. Among the favorites are Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Gilbert Arenas, Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James.Why Steve will win:It?s amazing to think that less than three years ago, the Mavericks made only a half-hearted attempt to keep Nash in Dallas because owner Mark Cuban deemed him too frail to last through a deep playoff run. At 33, the age when most guards start to decline, Nash is enjoying his best season yet. And he?s showing little sign of wear and tear. Most of all, his team never seems to lose. Let?s be the first to throw out the unthinkable: If the Suns sweep their current five-game road trip, a 70-win season starts to look possible.Why he won?t: Voters may be reluctant to put him in a class with past superstars. Or they just might be bored with picking him again. That?s a big reason Michael Jordan won only five MVPs.

Steve Nash basketball youtube video
2007-01-21 14:14:00
I strongly recommend watching this :) Not the best quality, but still... Enjoy!
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Steve Nash Nike basketball shoes
2007-01-21 14:03:00
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Allen about Steve
2007-01-15 23:22:00
So this is what greatness looks like...It's wrapped in a 6-foot-3, 195-pound package of frenetic energy. It's constantly in motion and barks out commands to four players who appear to move in perfect, precise unison.It wields a basketball in his hands, as if he and the ball were tethered by a string, and plays the game with a unique flair and charismatic appeal that compares favorably with NBA immortals Bob Cousy and Pete Maravich.But the comparisons do Phoenix guard Steve Nash a disservice because as Ray Allen noted: "Nash is playing at a time when players are so much more physically gifted then they've ever been. And while he may not have those gifts, that's what makes him, in my mind, the best player in the NBA."Whenever players and coaches toss out accolades like that they tend to look at the schedule to whichever team they're playing next before piling on the praise.Before a game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Kobe Bryant receives the love. Whenever the Cleveland Cavalier...

Steve is on fire!
2007-01-05 17:41:00
The Suns have yet to be outclassed. Even on their off nights, they fight and scrap for opportunities to win every game. Not one blowout among the 31 tip-offs. Phoenix was not at optimum on this week's trip. The offense was nowhere near its sharpest. And yet the Suns come home with a 3-0 swing that might top last month's 5-0 Eastern trip.After gritty victories against the East's top two teams Sunday (Detroit) and Tuesday (Chicago), the Suns lost a 17-point lead Wednesday to Toronto only to ride Steve Nash's will to a 100-98 victory in his annual Canada homecoming.Just as he did Sunday against the Pistons, Nash turned clutch. This time, it meant overcoming a night when his body and shot did not look well. Nash was 1 for 8 with six turnovers when the Raptors took their first lead, 83-82, on a tiring Amaré Stoudemire's fifth foul with 7:18 to go.Nash, with two points at that juncture, scored 13 in the final 7:03, including eight in a 68-second stretch late after Toronto again took ...
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Washington Times about this year's Steve
2006-12-27 19:24:00
Steve Nash is a 32-year-old freak of unparalleled audacity. His upward climb defies the customary parameters of the NBA. He is becoming ever more efficient with age, and no one thinks it is because of the cream and clear. He is built like the neighborhood runt, nondescript, right down to his previously spaghetti-like hair. Yet Nash is in position to claim his third consecutive MVP award, and there really is no one else in contention at this point in the season. He is having a career season, absurd as that is. He is shooting 90.4 pet from the free throw line, an unthinkable 49.5 percent from 3-point distance and 51.7 overall. The NBA intelligentsia is all atwitter over Allen Iverson's change of address, as if the Nuggets suddenly have bolted into championship contention. All this commotion is dispensed in honor of someone lugging around a 41.3 shooting percentage.So where does that put Nash, besides a basketball galaxy far, far away? Even as the NBA's two-time MVP, Nash never has b...
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Steve nash haircut
2006-12-27 10:35:00
Do you like his new haircut? If you take into consideration that his previous, long hair was a kind of a symbol, it is not so bad, is it? Some people don't think so...hahaha, read this:"Nash?s hair just told of his attitude: ?Not only am I the NBA MVP: I?m a freaking Canadian and I?ll whoop you at soccer.? Now that?s gone, and life on this earth has changed as we know it. On the bright side for Suns fans, Nash?s haircut lowers his wind resistance and also his weight, so expect him to go coast-to-coast in record time. I pity the teams in the Western Conference who must face this new, hybrid Nash."
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Steve Nash jersey
2006-12-27 10:13:00
Nash started his career in Santa Clara University with number 11 on his back...Santa Clara University retired Steve Nash's jersey when the two-time NBA Most Valuable Player and 1996 graduate spoke at the school's convocation ceremony Monday.A banner honoring the Phoenix Suns guard was hung in the rafters at the Leavey Center, and Nash's No. 11 jersey was raised on the opposite end of the gym. Nash is the first Santa Clara athlete whose jersey has been raised."This is obviously very exciting for me," Nash said. "I don't get a chance to come back to school often, so for me to be here is just great, and coupled with the huge honor it is to be able to be acknowledged for my career, is amazing and very humbling."Nash was recruited by coach Dick Davey, who still heads the Santa Clara program, and arrived at the Bay Area school from Canada in 1992. He led the Broncos to three berths in the NCAA tournament and two regular-season titles in the West Coast Conference, winning the league's...
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Steve Nash complete biography
2006-12-26 22:56:00
Who is Steve Nash trying kid? Hosers raised on hockey and soccer aren?t supposed to find their way on to an NBA roster, much less be mentioned as a possible league MVP. But the skinny Canadian kid who had to beg college coaches just to take a look at him has the basketball world at his feet. And he has done it his way every step of the way. No one works harder, plays more unselfishly or has better instincts for the game. Steve also happens to be the rare professional athlete who has never let stardom blind him, even if his famously uncombed hair sometimes did. This is his story?Steve John Nash was born on February 7, 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa. His father, John, played professional soccer, a vocation that took him and his family all over the world. Steve?s mother, Jean, was a sports fan, so she didn?t mind the globetrotting lifestyle. As John?s career wound down, the Nashes settled in Canada. They first lived in Regina, and then moved to Victoria City on Vancouver Island (wh...
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