You can take the man out of Canada and give him a basketball but he’s still going to be good at hockey.<\/p>\n
Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash showed off his skills on the “ice” during NBA on Prime’s studio show on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Nash, who grew up idolizing Wayne Gretzky<\/a> in Victoria, British Columbia, showed off how some basketball point guard skills translate to being a playmaking forward in hockey<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nash popularized commanding basketball games while moving under the hoop, similar to a hockey player quarterbacking a possession from behind the net.<\/p>\n Recently on his “Mind the Game” podcast with LeBron James, Nash, the former back-to-back NBA MVP (2005, 2006), talked about how Gretzky going behind the net changes the perspective of the defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can take the man out of Canada and give him a basketball but he’s still going to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-401533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}