Steve Nash Injury: Statistics That Define a Legendary Career

Two MVPs

There aren’t very many honors in professional sports that guarantee sustained star status. One of those awards is the incomparable league MVP.

Steve Nash has two of those on his resume.

Nash won NBA MVP in both 2004-05 and 2005-06. There are many who believe 2006-07, the season his MVP reign ended, was his most deserving year as a candidate.

In that same breath, many believe Kobe Bryant should’ve won in 2005-06 after averaging 35.4 points per game and leading an underwhelming Los Angeles Lakers team to the playoffs.

It evens out.

Nash took home the awards because he was the catalyst for the most prolific offenses of his generation. He combined scoring, facilitating and shooting in a way that hadn’t been seen before.

The last point guard to anchor an offense as prolific as the Seven Seconds or Less Suns: Nash with the Dallas Mavericks.

It’s a cycle.

Unfortunately, the 18-year veteran never took home an NBA championship. Only a select few league MVPs can make that claim.

Fortunately for Nash, that’s incredible company to be in.

With or without a championship, Nash earned his MVP awards by leading an offense that helped revolutionize the game. He was an elite shooter, a world-class facilitator and, when he needed to be, a dominantly efficient scorer.

Those two awards booked him a well-earned ticket into the Basketball Hall of Fame.