Steve Nash pens "emotional" letter about his health..........

[Sccit]

"I definitely don't want to be a distraction, but I felt it best everyone heard from me in my own words.

I have a ton of miles on my back. Three buldging disks (a tear in one), stenosis of the nerve route and spondylolisthesis. I suffer from sciatica and after games I often can't sit in the car on the drive home, which has made for some interesting rides. Most nights I'm bothered by severe cramping in both calves while I sleep, a result of the same damn nerve routes, and the list goes on somewhat comically. That's what you deserve for playing over 1,300 NBA games. By no means do I tell you this for sympathy - especially since I see these ailments as badges of honor - but maybe I can bring some clarity.

I've always been one of the hardest workers in the game and I say that at the risk of what it assumes. The past 2 years I've worked like a dog to not only overcome these setbacks but to find the form that could lift up and inspire the fans in LA as my last chapter. Obviously it's been a disaster on both fronts but I've never worked harder, sacrificed more or faced such a difficult challenge mentally and emotionally.

I understand why some fans are disappointed. I haven't been able to play a lot of games or at the level we all wanted. Unfortunately that's a part of pro sports that happens every year on every team. I wish desperately it was different. I want to play more than anything in the world. I've lost an incredible amount of sleep over this disappointment.

Competitiveness, professionalism, naiveté and hope that at some point I'd turn a corner has kept me fighting to get back. As our legendary trainer Gary Vitti, who is a close friend, told me, 'You're the last to know' - and my back has shown me the forecast over the past 18-20 months. To ignore it any longer is irresponsible. But that doesn't mean that life stops.

This may be hard for people to understand unless you've played NBA basketball, but there is an incredible difference between this game and swinging a golf club, hiking, even hitting a tennis ball or playing basketball at the park. Fortunately those other activities aren't debilitating, but playing an NBA game usually puts me out a couple of weeks. Once you're asked to accelerate and decelerate with Steph Curry and Kyrie Irving it is a completely different demand.

I'm doing what I've always done which is share a bit of my off-court life in the same way everyone else does. Going forward I hope we all can refocus our energies on getting behind these Lakers. This team will be back and Staples will be rocking."

http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2014/11/8/7177571/steve-nash-open-letter-facebook-health-back-injury



i'll vouch for nash....he wanted nothin more than to contribute and get a decent farewell tour. he put in the work, but his body just couldn't hold up.

[Hack Wilson - real]

dude's a moron for posting photos of him living it up on social media when his team sucks ass and he's stealing money from them

[DeeezNuuuts83]

I respect athletes for their talent and what they put their bodies through, but come on... being a basketball player is not one of the most physically taxing sports out there.  Football players are getting hit head-on play after play.  Boxers are getting punched in the face for twelve rounds, unless they get put out of their misery somehow.  Baseball players might take a baseball to the head.  Dude is complaining about sometimes feeling discomfort when on the car ride home, but we have other sports where people can't even walk anymore after career-ending injuries.  Fuck outta here.

[Sccit]

I respect athletes for their talent and what they put their bodies through, but come on... being a basketball player is not one of the most physically taxing sports out there.  Football players are getting hit head-on play after play.  Boxers are getting punched in the face for twelve rounds, unless they get put out of their misery somehow.  Baseball players might take a baseball to the head.  Dude is complaining about sometimes feeling discomfort when on the car ride home, but we have other sports where people can't even walk anymore after career-ending injuries.  Fuck outta here.

lol, smfh. the only sport that could be considered more physically taxing than basketball is football. nash tried to play and would if he could, but his body simply wouldnt allow it. every1 within the laker organization will vouch for that.

[Chamillitary Click]

he's stealing money from them

He signed a contract with them. That's poor management moves. But I'll give them a break because I see what they were trying to do at the time.

[TraceOneInfinite Flat Earther 96']

I have my own theories when it comes to the back, as it nearly ended my highschool playing career...

We wear our burdens on our back and the back is a psycho-spiritual instrument and a reflection of our overall mental-spiritual health.  Not that you have to be some kind of a guru to have a healthy back, but certainly a clear mind frees up the muscles in the back.

The root of Nash's back problems are the result of him being a white man in a black mans game.  Same shit happpened to Bird.  He is an overachiever, his mind is ahead of his body, and thus out of harmony.  Like he said, his back won't allow him to accelerate with a superior black athlete such as Steph Curry.  Nash's mind has conquered the game but his back won't follow suit and it is frustrating for him causing great pain.

Had he converted to Islam it would have brought harmony and cured his back problems.  But all the harmony in the world can't erase his whiteness.  The man has done all he can do in the game, he has overachieved and surpassed the limits of his whiteness.  His back is crying our for him to finally show gratitude to Allah and be satisfied for his success in the game, and retire to a life of praising and serving Allah's majesty.  He should give mich thanks.  Being an overachiever is a gift and a curse.  Its a curs now because he should have listened to what his body was telling him and retired a few years ago, he is overpaid and hurting the team causing more bad karma and more back problems.  Still props to him for opening up to fans.

[Hack Wilson - real]

Had he converted to Islam it would have brought harmony and cured his back problems.  But all the harmony in the world can't erase his whiteness.

 

[Sccit]

interesting theory

[DeeezNuuuts83]

I respect athletes for their talent and what they put their bodies through, but come on... being a basketball player is not one of the most physically taxing sports out there.  Football players are getting hit head-on play after play.  Boxers are getting punched in the face for twelve rounds, unless they get put out of their misery somehow.  Baseball players might take a baseball to the head.  Dude is complaining about sometimes feeling discomfort when on the car ride home, but we have other sports where people can't even walk anymore after career-ending injuries.  Fuck outta here.

lol, smfh. the only sport that could be considered more physically taxing than basketball is football. nash tried to play and would if he could, but his body simply wouldnt allow it. every1 within the laker organization will vouch for that.

I don't doubt that he would play if he could, but that has nothing to do with this letter. It's almost insulting to read as a fan. Kobe didn't need to write letters when he took most of last season off -- we knew he was injured.  It sucks but we get it. But the way it was written, it seems like Nash is trying to act like he changed the sport and sacrificed his body in the process. Dude needs to tone it down and kick back with those emotional pleas for sympathy.

[Sccit]

im starting to agree...apparently, he hasnt even been returning byron scott's calls smh