Steve Nash??????????

Question

is he the hardest working guy in the NBA??? He is phenomenal and does things no one else could ever be able to do. He is short really skinny (only weighs 170, less then CP3, Deron, and Jason). He also never got into a really good college and was turned down by everyone cause they didn't think he was good........so he had to work twice as hard to prove himself. Plus he has a chronic back diseases that he has to try to overcome.........thats why he lays down during his time on the bench instead of sittin in a seat. Is he one of the hardest workers???

Answer 1

think so too,

Answer 2

He is definitely one of the hardest but i don't know if he is THE hardest worker. As much as i hate him i might have to go with Kobe because of the way he practices like MJ in which that gives him the edge over his opponents. But yes Steve Nash is deff one of the hardest workers in the game.

Answer 3

He is certainly on the short list of hard working players.  Kobe is on that list, so's Dirk (both work on specific parts of their games all summer with private coaches).  There's also D-Will, Garnett, Pierce, Brand and a few others who have pretty steep off-season workouts and bust their butts to get better or keep up their game.

Answer 4

Probably not, because his defense is still absolutely terrible and the guy is the king of bad passes.  Maybe he should put some work ethic into getting good defensively or at least be an average defender.  Rajon Rondo could look like Kobe if steve is guarding.  I'll say he is one of the toughest competitors and makes everybody on the floor better but his costly turnovers and bad defense is why suns lost to the spurs.

Checkout Steve Nash's turnover ratio worst among the top pg' s in the league.

Answer 5

yeah Steve Nash is the opposite of Carmelo Anthony.

Answer 6

kwame brown is the hardest worker in the nba!!!

Answer 7

of course nash is the hardest guy in the nba. nash still played in the playoffs against the spurs in 07 when his nose bleeded

Answer 8

you dont win two MVPs for nothing

Answer 9

yeah steve nash is one if the hardest but jordan was the hardest working playing in the nba i will count him after jordan

However, his impact is far greater than awards and championships. He burst into the league as a rookie sensation scoring in droves with an unmatchable first step and acrobatic drives and dunks and concluded his career as a cultural icon. Along the way, he became a true champion who spearheaded the globalization of the NBA with his dynamic on court abilities and personal sense of style that was marketed to the masses.

He was an accessible star who managed to maintain an air of mystique. He was visible as "Air Jordan," as part of a sneaker advertising campaign and endorsing other products as well as the star of the movie, Space Jam. However, he would vanish into retirement twice only to return until hanging up the sneakers for the last time after the 2002-03 season.

Although Brooklyn born, Jordan was bred in the more tranquil North Carolina. The son of Delores and James Jordan, he shared a special bond with his father, which included baseball being both of their first love. However, following his older brother, Larry, whom he idolized and was a spectacular athlete in his own right, Jordan began to play basketball.

He attended Laney High school in Wilmington, North Carolina, but as a 5-11 skinny sophomore, he was cut from the varsity basketball team. The summer before his junior year, he grew to 6-3 and began his path to super-stardom.

A Tar Heel at heart, the high school All-American attended the University of North Carolina. As a freshman, he played somewhat in the shadows of upperclassmen James Worthy and Sam Perkins. However, he shone in the spotlight of the NCAA Championship game against Georgetown and another great freshman Patrick Ewing, whom he would foil future NBA championships for as well. Jordan scored 16 points, grabbed nine rebounds and made the winning basket on a 16-foot jumper with 18 seconds in the game for the 63-62 victory.

As a sophomore, he was named College Player of the Year by The Sporting News. As a junior, he received that award again as well as the Naismith and Wooden Awards. After his junior year he was chosen with the third overall pick in the 1984 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls.

The Houston Rockets selected 7-0 center Hakeem Olajuwon form the University of Houston with the No.1 pick, which most expected. The Portland Trail Blazers, however, with the No. 2 pick chose 7-1 center Sam Bowie from Kentucky, which was not as anticipated. Bowie had suffered several injuries while in college but the Blazers bypassed Jordan because just the year before the team selected another exciting shooting guard in Clyde Drexler. Although Drexler went onto to be a star, Bowie was an injury prone player with a journeyman pro career

However, Jordan, coming off a gold medal performance at the 1984 Olympics prospered in the pro game with a fabulous first season, earning the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He averaged 28.2 ppg, (third behind Bernard King and Bird) 6.5 rpg and 5.9 apg. He also was selected to the All-NBA Second Team. Perhaps more important, the Bulls improved to win 11 more games than in the season prior to his arrival and made it to the playoffs. Jordan averaged 29.3 ppg in the first round series, but the Bulls lost in four games to the Milwaukee Bucks.

In his first season, he did not have outstanding shooting range and was thought to roam to often on defense resulting from playing trapping defenses in college according to his first NBA coach, Kevin Loughery. Yet, his medium game -- eight to 15-feet from the basket was impressive as evidenced by his .515 field-goal shooting percentage and his steals tended to compensate for his less than stellar straight-up defense. Improvement in both areas would come and he would ultimately be regarded as threat from anywhere on the floor and one of the best ever one-on-one defenders.

"There's Michael Jordan and then there is the rest of us."

-- Magic Johnson



Even in the exhibition season before his rookie campaign, players and coaches were sure that the Rockets and Blazers would regret their picks. King, the eventual leading scorer for that upcoming season, seemed sure as well when he spoke to Hoop magazine after a 1984 preseason game.

"All I can say," King says, "is that the people in Chicago are in for a real treat."

He was right. Jordan's greatness and likeabilty was apparent in just his first season. Home attendance at the venerable Chicago Stadium and on the road rose dramatically. Fans of opposing teams were seemingly content to see their team lose if in return Jordan put on show.

Jordan's personal style was equally authentic and unique as his basketball skills. Nike signed him to a major shoe deal because of his anticipated appeal, but he surpassed even the loftiest of expectations. One version of the sneakers he wore in his first preseason was an unseen before  

Answer 10

yes,  

Answer 11

there's no way to tell how hard a player works but you can tell mental toughness and heart through incidences like those he played with broken nose. His whole career really is in itself proof to that being a star in a league where he's much less physically gifted than his peers. I dont know about hardest working, but you can definitely say he's the player that beat the biggest odds in the nba.

Answer 12

Yeah, Steve Nash is a baller. I respect his game alot! Gives us short white guys confidence that we can do it too! haha..

Answer 13

He's just another very good player that will retire without a ring!!

Answer 14

I think all the really good players are hard working athletes. Him and allen iverson I think are some of the toughest players in the league being knocked around all the time.

Didn't know about the back disease thing, i thought he just lay down cos he was tired.