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NUMBERICA said:
I just wanna note that Nash was #20 on my big board so I am both stunned and pleased to have him.

Who in NBA history has done a better job improving the play of his teammates (and where it can actually be proven, i.e. Gortat on the Suns vs. not, Shawn Marion with Nash or not with Nash, Channing Frye, Shaq's last hurrah)? Lebron?

What other players have shown such immediate impact on a franchise's winning BOTH when they arrived (>doubling winning percentage, going to WCF), AND losing when they left (winning percentage nearly cut in half, even though he had started declining before he left and the Suns had lost all their star power beforehand as well). David Robinson's injured season (a team that was already built around him, and who tanked)? When the Celtics went from a joke to acquiring BOTH KG and Ray Allen? Lebron probably fits this criteria since he shouldn't be faulted for not immediately turning them into a winning team as a rookie. There are certainly numerous examples that can be in this conversation, but the point here is the list of players that have this kind of impact are understood to be greats of the greats.

That is all to say that I think Nash's greatness gets overlooked because he was a (white) 6' 3" dude with a bad back doing his best on defense with no rim protection behind him and his teams never made a finals. He's faulted (I was once of this thinking too), and I think that is hogwash. He simply never had the complete team needed to win a chip.
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Got a bromance thing going here. Lol just making fun of how you talk about him. I mean do I need to get you a room? Haha all jokes a side I agree with pretty much all that. I don’t think he’s underrated as a player here at all. The only reason you got him where you did was because of the era rule we have in place. A lot of guys got picked way too soon (Pistol in the first round) and there are a lot of guys that still haven’t been picked that should’ve been picked and that’s due to the era rule. There are two or three guys I made writeups on where after I finished realized I couldn’t take them because I already took a guy from that era. Had I not taken Both Magic and or Curry, I would’ve been eyeing Nash for sure. He’s for sure top 5 pg of all time in my book.
 
@NUMBERICA I love Steve Nash. I mean the guy was a 2x MVP. I wouldn’t go as far as saying he should be in your top-20 players because he shouldn’t be but he definitely shouldn’t have fell to 45. Great pick. He was in my top-35.
 
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