spursparker9
03-12-2015, 07:22 PM
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The answer, according to Kevin Ding of Bleacher Report? Nash was doing the Lakers — going nowhere and trying to figure out how to get somewhere in the near future — something of a solid:
The only reason Nash isn't retired from basketball already, having put it all behind him, is so he could try to help the Lakers.
Nash was ready to call it a career before the season. After deep soul-searching to accept his body does not belong in an official NBA uniform any longer, he wasn't just out for the season.
He was, and is, done.
The Lakers asked Nash not to announce anything, according to team sources. They hoped they could trade Nash's $9.7 million salary, not only an expiring contract but also a giant coupon for another club to take and immediately save real dollars via insurance, to get a building block for the Lakers' future.
Fully aware how little he has given the Lakers since arriving in 2012, Nash agreed to do them a solid. He would put off his official retirement announcement and remain a member of the Lakers this season in name only. [...]
What was missing, alas, was a public celebration of all that mature thinking because the Lakers weren't able to make a trade using Nash's contract by the Feb. 19 deadline. So there was no payoff, which makes it emblematic of Nash's Lakers tenure: logical, earnest steps taken with the best of hopes and intentions...and simply no results.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/report--the-lakers-asked-steve-nash-not-to-retire-so-they-could-try-to-trade-him-192639393.html
The answer, according to Kevin Ding of Bleacher Report? Nash was doing the Lakers — going nowhere and trying to figure out how to get somewhere in the near future — something of a solid:
The only reason Nash isn't retired from basketball already, having put it all behind him, is so he could try to help the Lakers.
Nash was ready to call it a career before the season. After deep soul-searching to accept his body does not belong in an official NBA uniform any longer, he wasn't just out for the season.
He was, and is, done.
The Lakers asked Nash not to announce anything, according to team sources. They hoped they could trade Nash's $9.7 million salary, not only an expiring contract but also a giant coupon for another club to take and immediately save real dollars via insurance, to get a building block for the Lakers' future.
Fully aware how little he has given the Lakers since arriving in 2012, Nash agreed to do them a solid. He would put off his official retirement announcement and remain a member of the Lakers this season in name only. [...]
What was missing, alas, was a public celebration of all that mature thinking because the Lakers weren't able to make a trade using Nash's contract by the Feb. 19 deadline. So there was no payoff, which makes it emblematic of Nash's Lakers tenure: logical, earnest steps taken with the best of hopes and intentions...and simply no results.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball-dont-lie/report--the-lakers-asked-steve-nash-not-to-retire-so-they-could-try-to-trade-him-192639393.html