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Steve Nash: Worst MVP Choice in NBA History

 
There's a lot of words that can be described for Steve Nash, but MVP he is not. In fact Nash will go down as the worst MVP choice in NBA history. Most of the words to describe Nash relate to his offensive ability, but when you go to describe his defense, there are no words to describe how terrible he is at the defensive end. In fact during those MVP seasons that Nash had, the majority of the time Shawn Marion was guarding the opposing team's point guard. The reason being is Nash couldn't guard the point guard. Nash won his two MVP awards back to back one in the 2004-2005 season and the other in the 2005-2006 season. Yet, the only reason he won it was because the media fell in love with the Mike D'Antoni style: Wide-open offense that called for a lot of scoring, but absolutely no defense. His stats for the two awards looked like this: 2004-2005: 15.5 points per game, 11.5 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 1.0 steala, 3.3 turnovers, 50.2 percent shooting, 43.1 percent from beyond the arc, and ... (link)

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