Steve Nash Considering Retirement

[lakersrule]

I've felt for awhile now that Nash is done. He had all summer to get his body right but couldn't. I didn't think taking this time off during the regular season would make much of a difference. Unfortunate result from that freak injury.


I'm sure that Nash will keep trying as much as he can to get back onto the court. He doesn't seem like the type of guy who would feel good about getting all that money from the Lakers yet not able to play. I could see, like TF12 suggested, Nash taking on a coaching roll.

 

[WestCoastFan]

I noticed Isaiah Thomas is going to be a FA in 2014. Would Lakers go after a player like that? It would be both ironic and fitting for him to be on the arch-rival of his father.

 

[LALakersboy24.7]

I noticed Isaiah Thomas is going to be a FA in 2014. Would Lakers go after a player like that? It would be both ironic and fitting for him to be on the arch-rival of his father.

a Dodger, A's & Angel fan how is that possible ??

Well at least you're not a Vagiant fan

 

[GMATCa]

Yeah, I have mentioned on other threads how he has influenced our guards. I remember one game earlier this season where Farmar had the ball, dribbled around near and through the key and then suddenly was wide open at the hoop for a little scoop shot layup...........vintage Steve Nash!!

... problem is ... Jordan Farmar isn't quite a youngster with great upside.

Tangibly speaking, Nash didn't seem to do anything for Marcus Banks, Smush Parker, Yuta Tabuse, Andre Barrett, Sean Singletary, or any number of point guards who passed through Phoenix during his tenure. He didn't turn Leandro Barbosa into a true point guard, either. He may have helped Dragic, but Dragic was playing so badly in his third season with the Suns that Phoenix traded him. He then improved in Houston and the Suns brought him back as a free agent a year and a half after jettisoning him.

To be sure, Nash can impart all manner of experience, knowledge, and wisdom. To be sure, those intangibles by themselves are not worth a salary upwards of $9M per year.

I've written before that Nash's best move would probably be to take the rest of the season off, just concentrate on healing, and try to come back for one last hurrah in '14-'15. But as I've also noted, his salary makes that kind of strategy difficult to embrace or accept.

But if a franchise is dumb enough to give a thirty-eight-year old a three-year contract, this pickle is what it deserves.

 

[Retroram52]

I agree GMATCa. It is the bane of we fans of a team owned by a second generation owner with gobs of money who thinks it is some how business cool and competent to do that to a guy like Nash. What a stupid dope short Buss is. Right up there with brain-dead Reuben Amaro of the Phillies.