It's a rare player who gets to write the ending to his own NBA story, but if Steve Nash plays a few things right in this, his final season, there's a good chance his last chapter will be one he's happy with.
The days of assist titles and MVP trophies are done, but Nash is healthy now. Or, at least healthy enough to keep playing a little while longer.
"I think this is my last season," Nash told Sport TV.
Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News transcribed the rest: "But I still love to play, practice and work on my game. I'm going to spend hopefully many many years living this life without basketball. It'll be nice to play one more year."
The hope is that this season resembles Nash's earlier days more than it does his two most recent campaigns, when a fractured leg kicked off a chain reaction of back, hip and nerve issues that cost him a total of 99 games.
Hopes and expectations are vastly different things, though.
His 15-game sample from the 2013-14 season is simply too small to provide any real information, and we know Nash was physically rickety even in the ga ...
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