Step right up and buy your Steve Nash bobblehead lollipop

April 1st, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Via Basketbawful comes this Steve Nash “bobblepop” doll. Why does this not look like Steve Nash? Why are his eyes channeling some spirits? Why would someone buy this? What NBA marketer thought this was a good idea to produce?

Also: I’m sure that candy tastes awful.

Steve Nash: Film auteur

March 21st, 2008 | Posted by PostmanR

Steve Nash has always been more than just a basketball player. Dude’s got some sweet handles with a soccer ball, can skateboard, thinks worldly and scholarly. Basically, he’s better than you in every aspect of your life. (Except for your scissor skills. I hear you cut an edge like no other.)

Well, let’s add aspiring filmmaker to his long list of talents. This all coming after he helped put together this spot for Nike last summer. From the Arizona Republic (via Fark):

It won’t be his last filmmaking foray. Nash started a film production company with his cousin, director Ezra Holland, and plans to make independent-type films.

“It was really fun for me to watch it grow organically,” Nash said. “To make a little film and see 400,000 people watch it is pretty fun.”

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“He was just this guy on the street pimpin’ so it was like, ‘Let’s get a shot of him,’ ” Nash said.

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“At first, the idea was to shoot on different mediums - camera phone, 8-millimeter, 16-millimeter (the eventual choice), security footage. My idea was the city was watching me. The genesis was a lot of people film me or take a picture of me in the city on cell phones. If it’s such an appetite to see me do normal things, it was an idea to do something people like.”

I think a collaboration with Wes Anderson should come here in due time. Because really, I think he’s the long lost fourth Wilson brother from Canada. There’s a resemblance there, no?

Steve Nash, master of the basketball pass

October 30th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

The new issue of the NYT’s Play magazine just dropped and its cover story is on Canadian Jesus himself, Steve Nash. There’s a lot here: his time in New York this summer where he just aired it out and chilled, his thoughts on the opportunities of the global village, his life as a father and his humanitarian trip to China not too long ago with some fellow NBAers.

There’s this sort of mystique about the guy because he’s short (for the NBA, of course), white, 33-years-old and yet, somehow controls a sport he should have no business being in. And he’s gotten better with age. It defies conventional wisdom, logic and whatever other normalcies we subscribe to on this Earth.

Dude also knows some insane stuff about his one-handed passes.

Nash’s one-handed bounce pass reminded me of a story I’d heard from Dick Davey, the Santa Clara coach, who had been the only man in college basketball interested in recruiting the future two-time M.V.P. They were having lunch a couple of years ago, and the coach had a bone to pick with his former protégé.

“I said to him, ‘Dammit, Steve, you penetrate the paint and you kick the ball out with one hand, you gotta do it with two hands.’ And he said, ‘If I do it with one hand, it’s about three-tenths of a second faster, and my teammate is going to have a better look at the basket.’ Do you want to know how smart he is? If he had a guy on the right wing in transition who he knew couldn’t shoot the ball, he’d throw a pass that was just good enough to include the guy in the fast break, but just bad enough that the guy wasn’t in a position to get off a shot and would have to pass the ball back.”

I tried blogging this post with only one hand it took me a lot longer. I totally thought it was be three-tenths of a second faster. Blogging and basketball, I have found out today, are very different.

Steve Nash is one tough Canadian

May 7th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

I know this has been absolutely everywhere this morning, but hey, what’s one more mention of it? Anyways, here’s Steve Nash’s nose injury from yesterday that would just not stop bleeding.

It makes me feel lucky that I’ve never been busted in the face in such a manner and that I’m um, not a woman.

Mark Cuban is a sweaty, friendly owner

May 23rd, 2006 | Posted by PostmanE

The photographic proof is right there. Mark’s just happy.

And he should be, as his Mavs took down the Spurs last night, getting over that playoff hump they’ve been struggling with for so long.

That was only the first Game 7 of the night, as the Suns and Clippers went deep into the night to finally settle that West Coast situation out there.

Not gonna lie - wasn’t awake for this one. It was a taxing day and E needed his sleep.

Nonetheless, the LA Times is telling me that the Clippers ended their dream season - when you’re the Clippers, getting to the second round of the playoffs is a dream season - last night thanks to some clever basketball by the Suns.

You have to hand it to Steve Nash here. For all the talk about Kobe, and then LeBron, Nash is quietly leading his team, sans Amare Stoudamire, closer and closer to the NBA Finals. Not bad for a Canadian, eh?