Nash: "Incredible difference" Between NBA & Golf

Nick Schwartz reports that Steve Nash defends an Instagram posting of his golf swing (since deleted) after Lakers fans wanted to know how the gimpy guard is able to aggressively swing a golf club even though he has been unable to compete for two years due to injury (yet has refused to retire to collect his check).

This may be hard for people to understand unless you’ve played NBA basketball, but there is an incredible difference between this game and swinging a golf club, hiking, even hitting a tennis ball or playing basketball at the park. Fortunately those other activities aren’t debilitating, but playing an NBA game usually puts me out a couple of weeks. Once you’re asked to accelerate and decelerate with Steph Curry and Kyrie Irving it is a completely different demand.

While the clip was taken down by Nash, a local ABC news report captured what annoyed the already miserable Lakers fans staring down years of ineptitude thanks in part to the Nash acquisition: