Steve Nash has shared a fantastic story about how Steph Curry compelled him to appreciate it was time to trip off into the sundown.
The Suns legend spent his final two seasons within the league with the Lakers and by that point, his 16 seasons had begun to take their toll.
Nash spoke a few preseason recreation with the Lakers in opposition to the Warriors in 2013 that he performed to see if he may nonetheless be productive.
“We went to play these guys preseason in like Ontario, California, or someplace,” Nash mentioned on Thoughts the Recreation. “I don’t even keep in mind this. I’m guarding Stephen Curry. I feel they put up like 50 within the first quarter. Possibly it was 45, but it surely felt like a 50-piece, proper? He’s working all over the place. I’m like, again is broke. I couldn’t have most likely stopped him even when I had been 100%. And now I’m like dragging round Steve Kerr placing me in each motion. I’m trying over at Steve like c’mon Stevie. He’s over there smiling, too. They’re laughing at me. Alvin Gentry over there laughing at me like, ‘No, let’s see what you bought’. I’m like, man, actually like three, 4 extra days of considering on it, I used to be like ‘Yeah, I feel it’s time [to retire]. And that was it. I known as Mitch Kupchak.”
Nash added, “You deserve slightly little bit of placing me out to pasture, slightly little bit of my retirement. It’s not one thing I like to speak about in public loads.
“When he got here into the league, I nonetheless felt like the massive brother slightly bit, I nonetheless really feel like I’ve acquired the higher hand right here.
“Then he began turning into who he’s and the pendulum shifted.”
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