In the summer of 2004, free agency brought Canadian Steve Nash back to the franchise that originally drafted him eight years earlier. After a successful career at Santa Clara University, Nash was a first-round draft pick of the Phoenix Suns in 1996. He subsequently found his basketball home in Dallas with co-horts Dirk Nowitzki and Michael Finely to form another Dallas “Big Three.” Plays a classic point guard and is known to drive to the basket with reckless abandon where he can make the layup or deftly pass to a teammate for an easier basket. Has developed a consistent outside shot which makes him even harder to defend. (more…)