If you are Steve Nash and you are going to sit out some NBA basketball games, you might as well play soccer

Nobody lives forever and apparently nobody starts most NBA games forever. Steve Kerr is planning to play Steve Nash in only 70 of the teams 82 games. That is the plan anyway.

Steve Kerr is a disciple of Gregg Popovich, the coach of the Spurs. His theory is to keep his star players rested for the playoffs.

Looking at Tim Duncan’s minutes, Popovich has rested his big guy more and more over the course of the first half of the season — when the Spurs often get written off — and then works him up to full speed in the second half, when they “coincidentally” move to the top of the standings.

Nash played in all but one of the regular-season games last season.

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Should be interesting to see if Steve Kerr pulls this off. Steve Nash often looks like the energizer bunny on the floor and it is hard to see him wanting to sit any games out let alone 12 of them.

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Mike D’Antoni says “it was the Spurs, come on. Whoever beats them in the NBA playoffs?”

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Basketball owners amaze me. They seem to be hands off until you least expect it.

This year in the playoffs, it is easy to see that the teams that play the best half court defense will win, assuming the teams are somewhat equal teams.

Do only owners wake up to this after their team is knocked out of the playoffs?

We saw Avery Johnson fired after the Mavericks lost to the Hornets. They played very little defense.

Now the Suns may fire their coach Mike D’Antoni, although Steve Kerr, the GM, is denying it.

Despite averaging 58 regular-season wins the past four seasons, Mike D’Antoni might be out as Phoenix Suns coach.

A SI.com report on Tuesday night said the coach will not return after his team was eliminated by the San Antonio Spurs in five games in their best-of-7 first-round playoff series. D’Antoni has two years and $8.5 million left on his contract.

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It seems odd to think of firing D’Antoni when losing to the Spurs. After all, it was Steve Kerr that brought in Shaq, got rid of the Matrix, to supplement the running game of Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire. Shouldn’t Steve Kerr’s job be on the line?

NBA Basketball special comment Phoenix has now lost to San Antonio 3 times in the last four years in the NBA playoffs.

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