Steve Nash

Stephen John Nash (born February 7, 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a star Canadian basketball player.

Personal

Steve comes from an athletic family. His father John Nash was a minor professional soccer player in South Africa. Martin Nash, Steve's brother, has made 30 appearances for the Canadian national soccer team. Steve had decided to focus on basketball in his early teens, but still played soccer through high school, and was named British Columbia player of the year in soccer as well as basketball in his senior year. His father is a native of Tottenham, England, and Steve grew up rooting for Tottenham Hotspur, ironic since another "Spurs" team is now his conference rival. When Dirk Nowitzki arrived in the NBA from Germany, where soccer is the most popular sport, he and Steve Nash became close friends, in part because they could always watch soccer together.

Related Topics:
South Africa - Appearances - Canadian national soccer team - Soccer - British Columbia - Tottenham, England - Tottenham Hotspur - Dirk Nowitzki

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Steve's father is English and his mother is Welsh. Steve was born in South Africa because of his father's soccer career, but the family relocated to Canada before he was 2 because they did not want to raise their children in an environment of apartheid. As his mother Jean later said, "I didn't want our son to grow up in a place where one group of people was second-class citizens." http://www.canoe.ca/2000GamesNash/nash_00sep27-sun.html

Related Topics:
South Africa - Apartheid

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Nash is the subject of a book by Jeff Rudd, Long Shot: Steve Nash's Journey to the NBA.

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On October 14, 2004, Nash and longtime girlfriend Alejandra Amarilla became the parents of twin girls, Lola and Bella, who were born in a Phoenix hospital.

Related Topics:
October 14 - Phoenix

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