It keeps getting worse for the Los Angeles Lakers. Can you say Ronnie Price starting point guard? Yes, the third string player at the one from last year. As we’ve chronicled, Kobe Bryant isn’t going to have much in the way of a supporting cast. And now the Steve Nash news.
Steve Nash was ruled out of the 2014-15 season for the Lakers because of the nerve damage that has led to years of back and leg pains, likely ending his career, in news first reported by Kevin Ding of Bleacher Report. Steve Nash, if relatively healthy, was the projected starting point guard for the Lakers. That role now falls to Jeremy Lin. L.A. issued a statement about Nash.
This is probably the end of the line for Nash in L.A. Certainly his acquisition has been a bust for Mitch Kupchak. It also could be the end of Steve Nash’s NBA career. Perhaps.
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