Stephen John Nash OC OBC (conceived 7 February 1974) is a Canadian expert basketball coach and the former player who is the lead trainer for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a senior counselor of the Canadian men's public group.

As a player, he played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was an eight-time NBA All-Star and a seven-time All-NBA choice. Twice, Nash was named the NBA Most Valuable Player while playing for the Phoenix Suns. 

After an effective secondary school b-ball vocation in British Columbia, Nash earned a grant to Santa Clara University in California. In his four seasons with the Broncos, the group showed up, and he was twice named the West Coast Conference (WCC) Player of the Year.

Nash moved on from Santa Clara as the group's untouched pioneer in help and was taken as the fifteenth pick in the 1996 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns. He had a negligible effect and was exchanged to the Dallas Mavericks in 1998.

By his fourth season with the Mavericks, he has cast a ballot to his first NBA All-Star Game and had earned his first All-NBA determination.

Along with Dirk Nowitzki and Michael Finley, Nash drove the Mavericks toward the Western Conference Finals the accompanying season. He turned into a free specialist after the 2003–04 season and came back to the Phoenix Suns. 

In the 2004–05 season, Nash drove the Suns toward the Western Conference Finals and was named the alliance's MVP. He was named MVP again in the 2005–06 season and was sprinter up for a third continuous MVP to Nowitzki in 2006–07.

Named by ESPN in 2006 as the ninth-most noteworthy point gatekeeper ever, Nash drove the alliance in help and free toss rate at different focuses in his vocation. He is likewise positioned as one of the top parts in NBA association history in three-point shooting, free toss shooting, complete help, and helps per game. 

Nash has been respected for his commitments to different altruistic causes. In 2006, he was named by Time as one of the 100 most powerful individuals on the planet.

He was delegated to the Order of Canada in 2007 and put to the request in 2016 and was granted an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Victoria in 2008.

Nash has been a co-proprietor of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) since the group entered the alliance in 2011. From 2012 to 2019, he filled in as head supervisor of the Canadian men's public group, for whom he played from 1991 to 2003, showing up and being twice named FIBA AmeriCup MVP. 

In 2020, The Brooklyn Nets employed Steve Nash as their mentor Thursday, putting the Hall of Fame point watch responsible for the group that would like to have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving together next season. 

The Nets employed Steve Nash as their mentor Thursday, putting the Hall of Fame point monitor responsible for the group that would like to have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving together next season. 

"Training is something I realized I needed to seek after when everything looked good, and I am lowered to have the option to work with the remarkable gathering of players and staff we have here in Brooklyn," Nash said in an announcement. 

Early life 

Nash was conceived in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a Welsh mother, Jean, and English dad, John, on 7 February 1974. His family moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, when he was a year and a half old, before settling in Victoria, British Columbia.

He, hence, holds the British just as Canadian citizenship. Before the family settled in Canada, his dad played proficient soccer in different pieces of the world.

Nash regularly played soccer and ice hockey with his more youthful sibling Martin and didn't begin playing b-ball until he was 12 or 13 years old.

In grade eight, in any case, he told his mom that one day he would play in the NBA and would turn into a star. He was a neighbor to future NHL stars Russ and Geoff Courtnall, who used to watch and played soccer trained by Nash's father. 

Individual life 

In 2001, Nash met Alejandra Amarilla in Manhattan. They wedded in June 2005 and had twin girls, Lola and Bella, conceived on 14 October 2004  and a child, Matteo, brought into the world 12 November 2010.

Upon the arrival of his child's introduction to the world, Nash said something to Life and Style in which he reported the birth however considered it a "mixed second," uncovering that he and his better half had "lived independently for as far back as a while" and are "dissolving" their marriage.

In March 2016, Nash got drew into Lilla Frederick, a previous Pepperdine University and junior ladies' U.S. group volleyball player They wedded in September 2016. In July 2017, Frederick brought forth their child, Luca Sun Nash, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California. 

In 2006, Nash rejected that he was impractically associated with Canadian artist Nelly Furtado. She had referred to him in her 2006 melody "Unbridled," which prompted gossipy tidbits that they were linked. They both experienced childhood in British Columbia. 

Nash's more youthful sibling, Martin, played soccer for the Vancouver Whitecaps FC and showed up for the Canadian public soccer team.

Their more youthful sister, Joann, was the skipper of the University of Victoria Vikes ladies' soccer group for a long time and was named a Canada West Universities Athletic Association All-Star. She is hitched to proficient ice hockey player Manny Malhotra. Nash is the adoptive parent of New York Knicks star R. J. Barrett. 

Nash has an ailment called spondylolisthesis, which causes muscle snugness and back agony. Because of the condition, when he isn't playing in ball games, he lies on his back instead of sitting on the seat to keep his muscles from stiffening.