So I played a game vs Steve Nash today :)

[NotWorthy]

Wow, great story. I guess Nash lives in Greenwich Village.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basket...tory?track=rss

[Maniak]

you lucky guy, nash is my favorite basketball player ever

[emsteez forreal]

Every morning, before I go to work, I like to play a few pickup games at these courts in Tribeca (for you New Yorkers, it's the courts right near BMCC and Stuyvesant High School) I usually play from about 6 to 7 in the morning, and go home to get ready for work. This morning, Steve Nash was at the court. I didn't realize it was him because I saw him from the back, and he had short hair(my mental image of Nash had always been long hair). I also didn't think Nash was that tall, but he was a good 4 or 5 inches on me( im 5'10").

I was already heading towards his court to shoot around with him, and then I realize it was Steve Nash. First, my jaws felt like they were going to drop, but I got past that, and just asked if I could shoot around. We played a game(I won't even mention score), and he said he had to leave. I didn't want to ask for an autograph, and it would seem gay to just take a picture of him, so I didn't.

I know many of you won't believe this, and that's fine, I wouldn't either, but whatever, doesn't matter, I just felt that I had to share the experience. He was pretty nice, ignoring like six high school kids (presumably from the HS nearby) videotaping us with their cell phones. I play pickup there every morning, if I see one of those students around, I'll try to find out if I can get the footage of us playing.

One last note, aren't NBA players not allowed to play pickup ball? Isn't it in their contracts or something, to prevent injury?

wait a few more days and search steve nash tribeca or something on youtube and if those kids recorded it with their phones they'll probably put it on youtube. i believe you though, i don't see why someone would lie about this, it's not like he's tryna impress no one . but yeah steve nash seems like a personable guy .

[emsteez forreal]

Wow, great story. I guess Nash lives in Greenwich Village.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/basket...tory?track=rss

confirmed

[mmsupra]

Bad ass!! I would have asked him about his nose lol..Nah I would not have really bothered him with questions cause thats what everyone else does ...

[ikoiko]

nash ballin at 6 in the morning in the summer. his work ethic >>> all.

[ShowTime LA]

Oh snap i think i just saw Carmelo Anthony. Some guy was going 80 on a 25 mph road by my house.

[ALlArOuNDPIaya]

Oh snap i think i just saw Carmelo Anthony. Some guy was going 80 on a 25 mph road by my house.

Okay, that's pretty funny.

But I believe the story nevertheless. Though I would have been talking to him a hella lot more.

[FireMcFailPlease]

So what. I saw Ricky Davis outside of a strip club once getting into his black 07 escalade. I gave him the thumbs up and he winked at me

[AIrules]

DAMN! What was doing Nash doing there?

[AIrules]

Oh snap i think i just saw Carmelo Anthony. Some guy was going 80 on a 25 mph road by my house.

[miller-time]

DAMN! What was doing Nash doing there?

umm.. playing basketball? i thought that point had been established.

i give the story an 80% for believability. so its good enough. nice work, i'd give anything to do that.

[RomeoLuvCasanova]

Living in the city you see all kinda people all the time. I go to a gym on the upper west side and have played some pick up games with Ben Gordon, Lamar Odom, Smush Parker and Charlie Villanueva. You never realize how talented these guys are till you see them play in the gym against regular people.

The craziest thing is running on the tredmill and looking over and seeing Madonna running with her entire entourage or seeing Alex Rodriguez and Diddy just shooting around. There are few cities in the world where you can see stuff like that.

[dwight20-20]

Lets just say he is incapable of missing on 9 feet rims, and an opponent a good 5 inches shorter

wait the rims were 9 feet? why would you play on 9 feet rims?

[facebook]

nice! can you at least tell us how many pts you scored?