Nash Reflects, Rips Gasol Trade

[spursfan1000]

Having just signed a contract extension with the Suns, Steve Nash took just a few seconds to look back on the last few years.
"You know what? I enjoy life too much to look back a lot," Nash told the Arizona Republic of his five years with the Suns. "I have too much to look forward to each day, too much left to accomplish and work for. Yeah, it's a shame and it hurts, if I take a minute to stop and think about it. But I don't really have any regrets, and I look forward to continuing to improve and being part of a great environment and a great team."
As positive and forgiving as Nash sounded, he proved that he could be bitter too.
"No one gave us Pau Gasol for nothing," he added.
Nash was referring to a February 2008 trade between the Grizzlies and Lakers. Los Angeles acquired Gasol and a 2010 second round pick from Memphis for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, the rights to Marc Gasol and two future draft picks

[nkdlunch]

:lmao

[anonoftheinternets]

lol ... nash threw amare under the bus a bit ...

[23LeBronJames23]

:lmao

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

You kinda lose the right to whine when you told the GM to trade an all star 3rd all NBA center for nothing.

[in2deep]

3RDYD0EUBzY

:lmao

[angelbelow]

lol nash

[RedsLakers24]

Nash, LOL

[JamStone]

A bike ride with Baron Davis might make him feel better.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I can understand why he has that attitude. The only thing he sees when he looks back is the guy that just dribbled right past him.

[Mr Bones]

Phoenix had their chance to trade Amare for KG and balked, and the rest is history. Boston won a championship, and Phoenix has since become a non-factor in the league. It's amazing how often GMs still think they can build teams around immature dunk machines who don't care about defense. It just doesn't work.

[KSeal]

What a pathetic piece of shit Steve Nash is. Dude had a whole fucking team of all stars and could never get the job done. Cry me a fucking river.

[z0sa]

ripping the gasol trade is standard fare when talking about how shitty your team's situation is

[Morg1411]

I like watching Nash play. Too bad he's such a dickhead.

[resistanze]

2 MVPs > Appearance in finals, faggots.

[BlackSwordsMan]

should have been 3 mvp's

[timvp]

Jerry West needs his jersey retired again.

[Showtime24 LAKERS]

Pau was on the trading block for two years and no one made the move to get him. Mr. West may have recorded his final assist in the process as well :lol

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Team A traded an expiring contract + their 2008 and 2010 first round pick for Gasol.
Team B traded an expiring contract + their 2008 and 2010 first round pick for nothing.

When you just signed an extension with team B, don't whine about a trade team A made when it's clear team B had no interest making that trade.

[Spursmania]

lol...

[TheSullyMonster]

Team A traded an expiring contract + their 2008 and 2010 first round pick for Gasol.
Team B traded an expiring contract + their 2008 and 2010 first round pick for nothing.

When you just signed an extension with team B, don't whine about a trade team A made when it's clear team B had no interest making that trade.

If anybody knew he'd be let go for that, they would've been sending their wives and daughters over to make sure their team was the recipient.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

If anybody knew he'd be let go for that, they would've been sending their wives and daughters over to make sure their team was the recipient.


Maybe certain teams would, but not a team that just traded a similar package for nothing.

[Mr Bones]

The Grizzlies got more in return than the Bucks did for Jefferson. Trading away talent for cap space is a way of life in the NBA now. The Griz are actually in better shape now than they were two years ago, which isn't saying much, but it's still true.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

The Grizzlies got more in return than the Bucks did for Jefferson. Trading away talent for cap space is a way of life in the NBA now. The Griz are actually in better shape now than they were two years ago, which isn't saying much, but it's still true.

Any team with Z-Bo isn't in good shape IMO, but if they don't make that stupid Z-Bo trade I agree they were in better shape.

[Mr Bones]

Any team with Z-Bo isn't in good shape IMO, but if they don't make that stupid Z-Bo trade I agree they were in better shape.

Yeah, I don't get the Zach trade either, especially after getting three defensive minded guys in the draft in Carroll, Young, and Thabeet.

[Showtime24 LAKERS]

The lakers gave up Kwame Brown and Gasol, both are Starting Centers for their respective teams. What other team, if not the Lakers, gives up TWO starting centers for one power forward. Huge gamble by the Laker FO.

[Chillen]

Players see that trade as totally lopsided and the GM who approved that trade obviously was trying to make the Lakers better.

It worked. :lol

[z0sa]

Yeah, I don't get the Zach trade either, especially after getting three defensive minded guys in the draft in Carroll, Young, and Thabeet.

...or the fact they traded a much better player with a similar role (Gasol) not even 18 months ago.

[Chillen]

The lakers gave up Kwame Brown and Gasol, both are Starting Centers for their respective teams. What other team, if not the Lakers, gives up TWO starting centers for one power forward. Huge gamble by the Laker FO.

Kwame Brown for Pau Gasol is a huge gamble for the Lakers, really. :nope

[KSeal]

The lakers gave up Kwame Brown and Gasol, both are Starting Centers for their respective teams. What other team, if not the Lakers, gives up TWO starting centers for one power forward. Huge gamble by the Laker FO.

I'm sorry but :lmao

You can't be serious, trading the biggest bust of all time and someone that wasn't even on our team at the time for the missing piece that is responsible largely for two finals appearances in two years and a ring, that move was the furthest thing from a gamble.

[sabar]

Let's not refer to Kwame Brown as a starter now. That's just a disguise.

[vicphoenix13]

What a pathetic piece of shit Steve Nash is. Dude had a whole fucking team of all stars and could never get the job done. Cry me a fucking river.


What a pathetic piece of shit you are. Ripping Nash for saying what everyone in the NBA believed. How dare Nash speak candidly about the Gasol trade. I'd guess you would rather have copout cliches from professional athletes. Your a typical arrogant Lakers fan who doesn't appreciate what Nash has brought to the NBA. He grew up on the westcoast of Canada and received no scholarship offers to a U.S. university. When Santa Clara finally gave him a scholarship he led them to NCAA tournament wins over Arizona and Maryland. They haven't been back since he left the school in 96. Sorry, but Nash busted his ass to get to where he is today.

[KSeal]

What a pathetic piece of shit you are. Ripping Nash for saying what everyone in the NBA believed. How dare Nash speak candidly about the Gasol trade. I'd guess you would rather have copout cliches from professional athletes. Your a typical arrogant Lakers fan who doesn't appreciate what Nash has brought to the NBA. He grew up on the westcoast of Canada and received no scholarship offers to a U.S. university. When Santa Clara finally gave him a scholarship he led them to NCAA tournament wins over Arizona and Maryland. They haven't been back since he left the school in 96. Sorry, but Nash busted his ass to get to where he is today.

:lmao Ut oh, angered Nash pole smoker.

Nash is acting like he's never had any talent around him to win a championship. He's had gobs of talent around him the majority of his career and has never done shit with it.

[UrAphag]

Man Robert Horry looks like Will Smith.

[pauls931]

:lmao Ut oh, angered Nash pole smoker.

Nash is acting like he's never had any talent around him to win a championship. He's had gobs of talent around him the majority of his career and has never done shit with it.

While I don't completely agree, I do respect him for expressing his opinion on the trade, the Gasol trade disrupted the entire west.

[thispego]

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96569

[Culburn369]

While I don't completely agree, I do respect him for expressing his opinion on the trade, the Gasol trade disrupted the entire west.

Tougheth lucketh.

[K-State Spur]

The Grizzlies got more in return than the Bucks did for Jefferson. Trading away talent for cap space is a way of life in the NBA now. The Griz are actually in better shape now than they were two years ago, which isn't saying much, but it's still true.

they also gave up their franchise player who was paid accurately with his skillset.

jefferson is very overpaid for a guy who is a 4th option on a contender.

yeah, the grizz needed gasol's contract off their books so badly that they...just traded for zach randolph?

[Culburn369]

yeah, the grizz needed gasol's contract off their books so badly that they...just traded for zach randolph?

Stings, don't it?

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

How dare Nash speak candidly about the Gasol trade.


Yeah, no kidding, how dare Nash speak about the Gasol trade right after he told his GM to trade a center that made the all star team and was 3rd all NBA for nothing.

[vicphoenix13]

:lmao Ut oh, angered Nash pole smoker.

Nash is acting like he's never had any talent around him to win a championship. He's had gobs of talent around him the majority of his career and has never done shit with it.

Nash has never done shit? Now that's a biased Lakers fan. And when did Nash ever say he didn't have talent around him? He has consistently praised the players he's had the opportunity to play with.

[K-State Spur]

Stings, don't it?

a bit

[picc84]

You know, whats funny is that if the Gasol trade was never made - hell, if Pau Gasol never even existed - Nash STILL wouldnt have a championship. Someone else would have won the title but it wouldnt have been Phx.

I dont get why he's still talking about it. He's played with like a half dozen allstars in his career, multiple ones on the same team, and come away with nothing to show for it.

[BeeGee]

Yeh Steve, but the sportswriters gave you TWO MVPS for nothing. Bitter bastard. PLAY BALL!!

[Culburn369]

a bit

:toast

[csaenz]

I wonder if Nash was as excited by the extension as he was on draft night:

http://17.media.tumblr.com/CbfLqxdmeof0hmdabl1A5l3io1_500.jpg

[ShoogarBear]

But Steve, you'll get to score a lot of points and rack up lots of assists again now! That's what it's really all about, isn't it?

[Dunc n Dave]

Nash has never done shit? Now that's a biased Lakers fan. And when did Nash ever say he didn't have talent around him? He has consistently praised the players he's had the opportunity to play with.

Not behind their backs, he hasn't... (see: Oneal, Shaquille)

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Not behind their backs, he hasn't... (see: Oneal, Shaquille)


1) Nash fans will say that he had the right to stab Shaq in the back because Shaq couldn't guard two players at once when Nash was too lazy to guard anyone.

2) Nash fans, as well as Nash himself, like to ignore the fact Nash went to Kerr and told him to trade Marion for Shaq because he said he couldn't deal with Marion anymore (which I actually agree with him on, but that's beside the point).

[dickface]

We all know the Gasol trade was bullshit. Lakers fans know it. They know it more than any of us.

Just cuz it's Steve Nash sayin' it don't make it not true.

http://images.hollywood.com/cms/300x375/5241015.jpg

[Culburn369]

We all know the Gasol trade was bullshit. Lakers fans know it. They know it more than any of us.

Yeah, in hindsight. But at the time Gasol was a malingerer in Memphis, he'd stand out there and shoot 20 footers one after another. He was no ringer. Christ, they beat him to death in the Finals last year and he ran and cried to the refs. It was humiliating.

Somebody got to him in the offseason though and straightened him out. He was a different player this year. Gone (mostly) was the Sacramento Style Funk & Junk that he'd always played with in Memphis. He started looking eye, kept his mouth shut more and just soldiered.

[z0sa]

If there's one thing Pau gasol can't do, its keep his mouth shut.

[DJB]

The lakers gave up Kwame Brown and Gasol, both are Starting Centers for their respective teams. What other team, if not the Lakers, gives up TWO starting centers for one power forward. Huge gamble by the Laker FO.


kill yourself

[Culburn369]

If there's one thing Pau gasol can't do, its keep his mouth shut.

It's a mental weakness, a flaw, like a nervous tick, or James biting his nails and it hurts him & the Lakers because he gives stuff away doing that.

[KSeal]

It's a mental weakness, a flaw, like a nervous tick, or James biting his nails and it hurts him & the Lakers because he gives stuff away doing that.

:lmao