The Steve Nash Experiment Begins

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The NBA season begins tonight, with a very familiar name making his coaching debut for the Brooklyn Nets: Steve Nash. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Alex Schiffer to look at how the last five years (including a bond with Steve Kerr and Kevin Durant in Golden State) have prepared Nash for this moment, and how his resume as a two-time MVP has helped him earn the respect of Durant and Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:12.5	The NBA season tips off tonight, and making his coaching debut for the Brooklyn Nets
0:17.2	is a very familiar name.
0:20.6	The Brooklyn Nets are hiring Steve Nash, legendary point guard, two-time NBA MVP as their
0:27.2	new head coach.
0:28.2	He gets a four-year deal.
0:29.7	Today, the athletics Alex Schiffer on how Steve Nash has quietly been preparing for
0:34.2	a leap to the head coaching ranks, and why he's the right guy to lead Brooklyn's star
0:38.5	players, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.
0:41.3	I think that there's a lot of respect among the three of them as guys that were transformative
0:45.8	in the roadways.
0:46.8	Kevin obviously is one of the greatest scores ever.
0:49.0	Kyrie is known for his legendary handles and Steve is one of the point guards of the
0:53.2	21st century.
0:58.3	From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson.
1:24.7	It stays with you.
1:31.5	Well so Alex, let's go back to September when the news came out that the Nets were hiring
1:36.0	Steve Nash as their head coach.
1:38.2	What was the reaction to this around the basketball world?
1:41.7	Absolutely shocking to say the least.
1:44.9	Steve Nash is the next head coach of the Brooklyn Nets.
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