On the basketball court, Steve Nash was a transcendent talent who revolutionized modern point guard play, and for that reason alone, his illustrious career deserves to be celebrated.
Saturday afternoon, the future Hall of Fame inductee officially announced his retirement after 18 wondrous NBA seasons with the Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers in a first-person essay for The Players' Tribune:
I'm retiring.
I heard someone once say there comes a day when they tell us all that we can’t play anymore. We’re not good enough. Surplus to requirements. Too slow, maybe. When you’re a teenager with outsized dreams and a growing obsession, and someone tells you this ain’t gonna last forever, it’s scary. I never forgot it.
Arguably the most electric distributor and steady three-point shooter of his generation, Nash's game was defined by an unmatched blend of grace, elegance and composure.
"The breadth of his career is mind-boggling in its scope, though, which is why Nash actually has just as many pages devoted to his bio in the Lakers&rs ...
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