Steve Nash Optimistic About Injuries This Season
- Updated: October 20, 2014
According to ESPN reports released late yesterday, Steve Nash is feeling optimistic about his injury situation this season.
The point guard said yesterday that his health problems aren’t as severe as the ones who kept him out of all but 15 games last season.
Steve Nash last competed on October 12, in an exhibition game against the Golden State Warriors, but he ended up asking Coach Byron Scott to be pulled out of the game citing something just didn’t feel “right.” Nash is currently the oldest active player in the NBA, at 40 years-old, and he hasn’t practiced since the game against Steph Curry’s crew.
To make matters worse, Nash reportedly hurt his back earlier this week while he was carrying bags, click here to read more about this bizarre story.
“I expected things to happen. It’s inevitable with everything I’ve gone through that there’s going to be issues adapting back to the game,” Nash said before practice at the team’s facility. “On the other hand, I did get through seven or eight hard days well, which I didn’t do last year. So there is some improvement, and if I can adapt continually once I heal up here, I’ll be back on course.”
Coach Byron Scott ruled out Nash for the Lakers’ exhibition game Sunday against Utah.
“I really don’t know what the future holds for Steve right now,” Scott said. “The one thing I do know, like I said, in talking to him, [is] he wants to play. He wants to play badly.”
Nash is the first to admit that he has to return to the court at some point,
“Eventually you’ve got to play; that’s what we’re here for,” Nash said. “I’ve definitely had a struggle the last week, but I think I [need to] stay optimistic and see what I can do this week to get better and get back on the court.”
Steve Nash decided not to retire this offseason and returned to the Lakers to earn the final installment of $9.7 million to round out his $28 million deal over three years. Just because he decided to stick it out for this season, he also made it clear that this would most likely be his last.
“I think we are all fearing it throughout the year, we didn’t know when this might take place, we didn’t know if it was going to be November or March,” Scott said. “Very optimistic when we started training camp because he did look great, unbelievable shape, just moving up and down the floor with what seems like no hitch whatsoever. Obviously everybody here is disappointed, nobody more disappointed than Steve Nash.”
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