Dwight Howard and Steve Nash joined a team that already had Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.
The Lakers paraded in Dwight Howard and Steve Nash to join Kobe Bryant.
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Steve Nash, from Victoria, British Columbia, had won his second straight NBA MVP award.
His 2010 squad, led by Steve Nash, went 54-28 and advanced to the Western Conference finals.
The starting lineup of Bryant, Howard, Gasol, World Peace and Steve Nash fell to 0-6 this season.
Steve Nash scored 16 points and Steve Blake had 12, but no one else had more than six points.
The Los Angeles Lakers are loaded with such talent as Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol.
Lakers G Steve Nash missed his fourth straight game with a hamstring injury.
Steve Nash led the NBA in assists both the season before and the season after his marriage ended last year.
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Felton was considered an option as a veteran backup to Lin if the Knicks didn't get Steve Nash or Kidd.
But point guard Steve Nash keyed a 21-7 third-quarter spurt that put the Lakers up by as many as 18 points.
He's Steve Nash from the three-point line on his sixth-grade basketball team.
Time Warner Cable SportsNet cameras were on hand when super-stars Dwight Howard and Steve Nash met with Laker executives for the first time.
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Newly acquired point guard Steve Nash, expected to make a major impact, has been injured for most of the games and is not expected back.
"The time has come, " two-time MVP Steve Nash wrote on Twitter.
They traded for veteran point guard Steve Nash who they knew could feed the ball to Bryant and power forward Pau Gasol and revitalize the offense.
He's also hinted that Lin could be the new Steve Nash and that with the point guard position at last finalized, the offense will work itself out.
Bryant added nine rebounds and facilitated the Lakers' offense for 47 minutes, 37 seconds after Steve Nash exited early in the first quarter with a recurring right hamstring injury.
Dwyane Wade would be 30 and Steve Nash 38.
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The team added two future Hall of Fame players in Steve Nash and Dwight Howard during the summer to an already formidable roster featuring Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol.
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Rather, it was the pitch that Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak and All-Star Kobe Bryant made to 2-time MVP Steve Nash to join Los Angeles that filtered through the crowd like the wave.
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Los Angeles added two-time MVP point guard Steve Nash earlier in the offseason, and the two new stars join five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant to form a dominant trio of top-five players at their respective positions.
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In the Stern era, players such as Hakeem Olajuwon (Nigeria), Dikembe Mutombo (Congo), Dirk Nowitzki (Germany), Manu Ginobili (Argentina), Pau Gasol (Spain), Vlade Divac (Serbia) and Steve Nash (Canada), among many others, became not only stars but respected ambassadors.
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John Stockton, Jason Kidd, Mark Jackson and Steve Nash rank 1-4 on the all-time assist leaders, but none of them are mentioned in the same category as Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlin or Bill Russell as the Greatest Player of All-Time.
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The Olympic flame was jointly lit by four Canadian sports heroes - all-time hockey great Wayne Gretzky, skier Nancy Greene, speed skater Catriona Le May Doan and basketball All-Star Steve Nash after being carried into the arena by paralympian Rick Hansen.
But all credit to Steve Nash and to his teammates, because remember, they lost Amare Stoudemire for the entire season, arguably an NB - I can say MVP candidate in the NBA - Sorry, Steve -and yet here they are back in the conference finals.
No doubt they're stronger with Howard, much better defensively, and point guard Steve Nash was an excellent pickup, but unless Los Angeles plans to build a fire-pit in the middle of the court, I still don't see them shutting down Durant or his dynamo teammate Russell Westbrook.
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The male sex organ and its potential applications are contemplated endlessly, inside and out, with Seth and Evan turning ideas over in their minds with the same mixture of curiosity, creativity and awe scientists dedicate to quantum physics and basketball fans reserve for the career of Steve Nash.
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