Steve Nash Done For the Season

[JS22]

Lakers' Scott open to Nash sticking around as an assistant

http://www.thescore.com/nba/news/612960

Although Steve Nash has ruled out playing for the Los Angeles Lakers this season, he could still conceivably stick around as a de facto assistant head coach.

As Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News notes, Lakers head coach Byron Scott is receptive to the idea of Nash mentoring young guards. This would allow Nash to contribute to the team, if only in a sideline capacity.

Not a bad idea. May as well have him do something while he's getting paid. Hopefully it doesn't become a permanent job. The thought of Nash as a coach for the Lakers makes me die a little inside.

 

[elindholm]

Man, the last thing I'd want to do as a 6' 3" guy with back problems is spend a year flying all over the country.

 

[Superbone]

Give him the Phil Jackson treatment and only have him coach at home.

 

[sunsfan88]

Give him the Phil Jackson treatment and only have him coach at home.

Phil Jackson only coached home games?

 

[Superbone]

Phil Jackson only coached home games?

That was a deal they were trying to work out.

 

[HooverDam]

I'd love Nash to retire a Sun, but it likely won't happen. Though I played around w/ Trade Machine just for fun. This works under the CBA:

Suns send:
Gerald Green
Tyler Ennis
S. Randolph

LA Sends:
Steve Nash
Removal of protections from their 1st round pick

Would you as a Suns fan be OK w/ that? I'd LOVE to get that picks protection removed, though I kind of doubt LA would do it. They can wait out Nash's deal to expire this year, but they'd be able to resign Green and have a potential nice young piece in Ennis who the Suns have zero need for.

I actually think LA is probably the ones who say no to this deal.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I'd love Nash to retire a Sun, but it likely won't happen. Though I played around w/ Trade Machine just for fun. This works under the CBA:

Suns send:
Gerald Green
Tyler Ennis
S. Randolph

LA Sends:
Steve Nash
Removal of protections from their 1st round pick

Would you as a Suns fan be OK w/ that? I'd LOVE to get that picks protection removed, though I kind of doubt LA would do it. They can wait out Nash's deal to expire this year, but they'd be able to resign Green and have a potential nice young piece in Ennis who the Suns have zero need for.

I actually think LA is probably the ones who say no to this deal.

Oh man, I would absolutely despise that trade. I'm stunned. How in the world would a Suns fan think this is a good move? I guess if you really think the Lakers are going to be picking in the top 5 but otherwise it's just a royal giveaway on our part. And I doubt they pick in the top 5.

Steve

 

[sunsfan88]

That was a deal they were trying to work out.

Maybe they could just give him the Phil Jackson chair so he doesn't have to move around at all during games

 

[sunsfan88]

Oh man, I would absolutely despise that trade. I'm stunned. How in the world would a Suns fan think this is a good move? I guess if you really think the Lakers are going to be picking in the top 5 but otherwise it's just a royal giveaway on our part. And I doubt they pick in the top 5.

Steve

Yea not sure I'd trade Green for him when he has no value for us right now. We're better off signing him after the season (since he'll be a FA anyway) if we want to make it symbolic.

 

[sunsfan88]

Man, the last thing I'd want to do as a 6' 3" guy with back problems is spend a year flying all over the country.

I don't think his back problems hurts his walking into airplane ability. He probably just can't run around and he won't have to.

Just have someone else get his bags and he'll be fine.

 

[sunsfan88]

Royce Young @royceyoung
LeBron on Steve Nash via @mcten: “If you’re playing street basketball and he’s out on the side, you’re not going to pick him."

Chris Haynes ‏@ChrisBHaynes
LeBron says if playing streetball, Steve Nash wouldn't get picked. Then he finally plays, "you'll be like damn, I should have took that guy"

Kurt Helin @basketballtalk
LeBron James on Steve Nash: “I wish I could have been a teammate of his”

“His run in Phoenix was unbelievable, man,” said LeBron James. “The way he played the game of basketball, I wish I could have been a teammate of his for a year or two. Being around a guy like that who is just all about team. He never asked for anything and everything was given to him. You can respect somebody like that.”

“It’s tough,” James said when Northeast Ohio Media Group asked for his thoughts on Nash. “You hate to see anyone have the game taken away because of an injury and especially a talent like that. Obviously he’s worked his tail off to try to be healthy and play for the franchise. Over his career, he’s always kept his body in shape. We all knew that, and for his body to fail him at a time where he feels he still has something to give to the game, it sucks.

“At the same time, he has nothing to be ashamed of. He should be proud of every moment he had in this league. From him waiting behind, sitting on the bench behind J-Kidd [in Dallas] to finally getting his opportunity in Dallas and going back to Phoenix and having an unbelievable career with two MVPs and doing the things that he did.”

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....of-his/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

If only he had said something sooner....LeBron with Nash in the up tempo offense that Gentry had in place would have been unstoppable. A year or two is all that we would have needed to finally end the streak of no titles.

 

[slinslin]

Terrible article, Nash never sat on the bench behind Kidd in Dallas.

 

[Superbone]

Terrible article, Nash never sat on the bench behind Kidd in Dallas.

Yep, noticed that too. Buzz! Wrong answer!

 

[sunsfan88]

I don't think LeBron said Dallas, the writer assumed he meant Dallas but it was actually PHX.

 

[Phrazbit]

That bracket interjection is used when the writer is inserting something into a direct quote that supposedly needs clarification to avoid confusing the reader. Its almost certainly the writer of the article, and not LeBron who is fudging up NBA history there.

 

[Superbone]

Yes, it was obviously the writer who screwed up. I didn't see anybody say differently.

 

[Budden]

That bracket interjection is used when the writer is inserting something into a direct quote that supposedly needs clarification to avoid confusing the reader. Its almost certainly the writer of the article, and not LeBron who is fudging up NBA history there.

Unless LeBron was like, "... sitting behind J-Kidd, please put in Dallas in brackets, not the curly ones, but the normal kind, to finally getting his opportunity in Dallas and ...", it was most likely the writer.

One thing that kind of sucks though is that I get the feeling that 99.99% of people don't know how awesome Nash was.

 

[AfroSuns]

Nash writes open letter to Lakers fans

“I definitely don’t want to be a distraction, but I felt it best everyone heard from me in my own words.
I have a ton of miles on my back. Three buldging disks (a tear in one), stenosis of the nerve route and spondylolisthesis. I suffer from sciatica and after games I often can’t sit in the car on the drive home, which has made for some interesting rides. Most nights I’m bothered by severe cramping in both calves while I sleep, a result of the same damn nerve routes, and the list goes on somewhat comically. That’s what you deserve for playing over 1,300 NBA games. By no means do I tell you this for sympathy – especially since I see these ailments as badges of honor – but maybe I can bring some clarity.
I’ve always been one of the hardest workers in the game and I say that at the risk of what it assumes. The past 2 years I’ve worked like a dog to not only overcome these setbacks but to find the form that could lift up and inspire the fans in LA as my last chapter. Obviously it’s been a disaster on both fronts but I’ve never worked harder, sacrificed more or faced such a difficult challenge mentally and emotionally.

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2014/11/08/nash-writes-open-letter-to-lakers-fans/

His back issues, damn..that is one hell of an excruciating pain. I have known people with disks problems not even feeling their feet, that with stenosis and the other issues he very well might be in pain the remainder of his life.

 

[BC867]

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2014/11/08/nash-writes-open-letter-to-lakers-fans/

His back issues, damn..that is one hell of an excruciating pain. I have known people with disks problems not even feeling their feet, that with stenosis and the other issues he very well might be in pain the remainder of his life.

I appreciate what Steve meant to the Suns and the pain he will go through for the rest of his life.

Although ballplayers' salaries are obscene, it is because of the relatively short length of their athletic careers and the condition it will leave them in.

Professional contact sports is probably more health threatening except for just a few fields -- police officers, firefighters, miners, people working with asbestos, etc.

From a player's perspective, it is a career choice they made. Fame and millions of dollars vs. a lifetime of reasonably good health.

From a fan's perspective, it is what we pay (one way or the other) to watch.

I respect Steve's sincerity in sharing his medical condition with the public. Neither he nor the rest of us (especially fans in L.A.) should hold it against him.

It was the Laker's management's choice to sign him knowing that, in Phoenix, he had to lie on the hard floor when he was not on the court because of his back.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

"Going forward I hope we all can refocus our energies on getting behind these Lakers. This team will be back and Staples will be rocking." - Steve Nash

 

[AzStevenCal]

"Going forward I hope we all can refocus our energies on getting behind these Lakers. This team will be back and Staples will be rocking." - Steve Nash

Are the Rolling Stones coming to town? Or maybe the the Hansons?

Steve

 

[BC867]

"Going forward I hope we all can refocus our energies on getting behind these Lakers. This team will be back and Staples will be rocking." - Steve Nash

Steve always was a diplomat. And he is under contract to the Lakers.

And, yes, in time, the Lakers will be back and Staples will be rocking. They and the Celtics always go through cycles, but you know that, one day, they will be back. Unlike the Knicks or the Bulls.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Steve always was a diplomat. And he is under contract to the Lakers.

And, yes, in time, the Lakers will be back and Staples will be rocking. They and the Celtics always go through cycles, but you know that, one day, they will be back. Unlike the Knicks or the Bulls.

They probably will be, they have a lot to offer. But without Jerry Buss who knows.

Steve

 

[BC867]

They probably will be, they have a lot to offer. But without Jerry Buss who knows.

Steve

It's all in the hands of Jeanie. Maybe she and her fiancee could combine the best talents of the Lakers and Knicks and come up with one good team. Perhaps a coin toss would determine who would wind up with the best ones.

BTW, Jeanie has exposed Phil to the world as a harcore snorer.

When asked about his coaching the Knicks, Phil concurred that he'd probably be the best choice, but his physical ailments stand in the way.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/03/28/phil-jackson-jeanie-buss-dinner-coaching-knicks-lakers-video/