Reply to "Canada 150: Capturing a country through sport"

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Steve Nash

A kid dribbling a tennis ball to improve his basketball-handling skills, a two-time NBA most valuable player and arguably the best basketball player Canada has ever produced, a documentary film-maker, social activist, member of the Order of Canada, part owner of Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps, Olympian and the managing director of Canada’s senior men’s basketball team.

It’s been some ride for the South African-born, Victoria-raised Nash.

The 43-year-old was a self-made star on the court who helped revolutionize the NBA with the up-tempo Phoenix Suns, an activist who once wore a T-shirt proclaiming: “No war – Shoot for peace” at an NBA all-star game.

Fervently Canadian despite living in California, Nash produced a documentary on Terry Fox that relived the Marathon of Hope and was one of four athletes to light the cauldron at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

6/29/1711:47 PM

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