LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t for naught.
The sleepless strategizing. The sort of paint-peeling pain on a consistent basis that would have brought other men to tears and certainly retirement, and so much rest in hopes of incremental healing (waiting being the worst of all for an up-and-at-‘em go-getter)…there was a payoff.
It came on Steve Nash’s 40th birthday: Feb. 7, 2014.
He played—and played well—in Philadelphia. The ledger shows 19 points, four rebounds and five assists. There was even a magical behind-the-back crossover to lose Evan Turner and breeze to the basket.
It stands now, after Nash’s retirement announcement Saturday, as the final time Nash won a basketball game.
“I love the game,” Nash said that night. “And when you realize it’s almost gone, you love it more.”
They say you get what you put into it, and that has been undeniably true of Nash’s love for basketball.
So much was shared back and forth between Nash and this game—his nonstop high-fives ...
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