Steve Nash has shared a great story about how Steph Curry forced him to realize it was time to ride off into the sunset.
The Suns legend spent his last two seasons in the league with the Lakers and by that time, his 16 seasons had begun to take their toll.
Nash spoke about a preseason game with the Lakers against the Warriors in 2013 that he played to see if he could still be productive.
“We went to play these guys preseason in like Ontario, California, or somewhere,” Nash said on Mind the Game. “I don’t even remember this. I’m guarding Stephen Curry. I think they put up like 50 in the first quarter. Maybe it was 45, but it felt like a 50-piece, right? He’s running everywhere. I’m like, back is broke. I couldn’t have probably stopped him even if I were 100 percent. And now I’m like dragging around Steve Kerr putting me in every action. I’m looking 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 got’. I’m like, man, literally like three, four more days of thinking on it, I was like ‘Yeah, I think it’s time [to retire]. And that was it. I called Mitch Kupchak.”
Nash added, “You deserve a little bit of putting me out to pasture, a little bit of my retirement. It’s not something I like to talk about in public a lot.
“When he came into the league, I still felt like the big brother a little bit, I still feel like I’ve got the upper hand here.
“Then he started becoming who he is and the pendulum shifted.”
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