Steve Nash writes an open letter to laker fans

[InRareForm]

https://www.facebook.com/stevenash/posts/10152770496175250

[Splits]

I definitely don't want to be a distraction, but I felt it best everyone heard from me in my own words.

I have a ton of miles on my back. Three buldging disks (a tear in one), stenosis of the nerve route and spondylolisthesis. I suffer from sciatica and after games I often can't sit in the car on the drive home, which has made for some interesting rides. Most nights I'm bothered by severe cramping in both calves while I sleep, a result of the same damn nerve routes, and the list goes on somewhat comically. That's what you deserve for playing over 1,300 NBA games. By no means do I tell you this for sympathy - especially since I see these ailments as badges of honor - but maybe I can bring some clarity.

I've always been one of the hardest workers in the game and I say that at the risk of what it assumes. The past 2 years I've worked like a dog to not only overcome these setbacks but to find the form that could lift up and inspire the fans in LA as my last chapter. Obviously it's been a disaster on both fronts but I've never worked harder, sacrificed more or faced such a difficult challenge mentally and emotionally.


I understand why some fans are disappointed. I haven't been able to play a lot of games or at the level we all wanted. Unfortunately that's a part of pro sports that happens every year on every team. I wish desperately it was different. I want to play more than anything in the world. I've lost an incredible amount of sleep over this disappointment.


Competitiveness, professionalism, naiveté and hope that at some point I'd turn a corner has kept me fighting to get back. As our legendary trainer Gary Vitti, who is a close friend, told me, 'You're the last to know' - and my back has shown me the forecast over the past 18-20 months. To ignore it any longer is irresponsible. But that doesn't mean that life stops.


This may be hard for people to understand unless you've played NBA basketball, but there is an incredible difference between this game and swinging a golf club, hiking, even hitting a tennis ball or playing basketball at the park. Fortunately those other activities aren't debilitating, but playing an NBA game usually puts me out a couple of weeks. Once you're asked to accelerate and decelerate with Steph Curry and Kyrie Irving it is a completely different demand.


I'm doing what I've always done which is share a bit of my off-court life in the same way everyone else does. Going forward I hope we all can refocus our energies on getting behind these Lakers. This team will be back and Staples will be rocking.

[Splits]

:lol




Jake Rivard To all the bitchy Lakers fans, everyone calling Steve greedy should take a peek at the contract signed by a man they call "Kobe".... he's the reason you guys are absolute shit, not a 2-time MVP who has worked his ass off to make it back so stfu
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[ElNono]

cliff notes:

lol, thx for the $9 millions suckerz... oh shit, ex-wife is reading... err... I mean $9...

[BatManu20]

Nash spotted leaving the Lakers facilities after picking up paycheck.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOksgEo-d0

[Thebesteva]

Nash spotted leaving the Lakers facilities after picking up paycheck.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOOksgEo-d0

:lol I understand where Nash is coming from. I wish him well. It's not his fault, nor Kobe's for getting these stupid fucking contracts. You can thank Mr Jim Buss the ass clown for not knowing what hes doing. As much as I think Kobe is a sadistic fuck, he did what any of us would do, he took $48.5 million instead of $20 because he realized after teaming with Dwight+Pau+Artest that he couldn't even take them past the 1st round. Young Kobe would be able to easily take that team to the finals (if Phil and Fisher are present to minimize his ego). Kobe knows hes old and done, he knows better than you think. He just decided to take the last huge pay he will get from an NBA contract and his mental justification is that he wasn't getting top 10 salary until 2008. He deserves to be in a 0-82 team tho.

[resistanze]

cliff notes:

lol, thx for the $9 millions suckerz... oh shit, ex-wife is reading... err... I mean $9...

:lol

[mkurts]

It was obvious even before Nash signed the contract that his back was done and finished, yet as a man of integrity he still wanted the money knowing that he can no longer play at the NBA level. Lakers got taken for a ride, with utmost pleasure

[Joseph Kony]

Phoenix raped LA so hard in that trade :lol

[Franklin]

must be Cully who proposed that trade to the Lakers FO.

[DMC]

Cully wanted Neal.

[resistanze]

Didn't Nash injure himself recently carrying bags? :lol

[Chris]

lol Nash telling the fans to get behind the shitbag and friends
lol Nash laughing all the way back to Canada with Fredo's money
lol Nash never seen at the Staples center again after his contract is up

[Stabula]

:lol pure PR bullshit. Nash knows exactly what he's doing and it's smart but c:lolme on clown you know you scammed LA and were a major factor in the franchise being the bitch-made shit-hole its turned into.

[LkrFan]

cliff notes:

lol, thx for the $9 millions suckerz... oh shit, ex-wife is reading... err... I mean $9...

:rollin :lmao :rollin

[mavsfan1000]

Retire already.

[testies]

His back problems are so bad, he can't even attend games and try to compensate the gazillion dollars Lakers are losing because of him by being some sort of locker room guy or helping the coaches

[djohn2oo8]

:lol pure PR bullshit. Nash knows exactly what he's doing and it's smart but c:lolme on clown you know you scammed LA and were a major factor in the franchise being the bitch-made shit-hole its turned into.

At least he admitted publicly that he wanted the money. O.G. Steve :lol

[Stalin]

Even Canadians shitting on the lakeshow these days.