Steve Nash Injury: Statistics That Define a Legendary Career

10.0 Assists & 150 3-Point Field Goals

This is where Steve Nash pulls away.

According to Basketball-Reference.com, there have been four seasons in NBA history in which a player has averaged at least 10.0 assists and converted at least 150 3-point field goals.

Michael Adams was the first player to do it, dishing out 10.5 assists and draining 167 3-point field goals in 1990-91. Adams shot 29.6 percent from beyond the arc during that season.

The other three players to achieve that feat: Nash, Nash and Nash.

The difference between Nash and Adams is that the former actually made his shots with a modicum of efficiency. By a modicum, of course, I mean to say that he did it with ease.

Nash averaged 10.5 assists and sank 150 3-point field goals on 43.9 percent shooting from beyond the arc in 2005-06.

In 2006-07, Nash upped those numbers to 11.6 assists and 156 3-point field goals on 45.5 percent shooting from distance.

In 2007-08, he completed the three-peat with 11.1 assists and 179 3-point field goals on 47.0 percent shooting from 3-point range.

The 2007-08 season was special for another reason. It was the fourth time in NBA history that a player converted at least 175 3-point field goals while shooting at least 45.0 percent from beyond the arc, per Basketball-Reference.com.

Only Stephen Curry and Kyle Korver, twice, have done it since.

Together, Curry and Korver dished out 893 assists in those three combined seasons. Nash tallied 898 in 2007-08 alone.

The facts are what they are. no player since the introduction of the 3-point shot has combined facilitating and sharpshooting as well as Nash, and it really isn’t very close.

Whether he rebounds from this injury or not, Nash is one of the most statistically marvelous players in NBA history.