Jordan Shoes - Nash connects with Stoudemire in Suns win

Phoenix Suns fans booed when the Jordan Shoes drafted Steve Nash in 1996. They had no idea how wrong they were. Nash played in his 1,000th NBA game on Sunday night, ever the crafty playmaker with 13 points and 12 assists in the Suns 120-106 victory over the New Orleans Hornets.
To play 1,000 games is amazing, the 36-year-old point guard said. Part of me feels like it just means I-m old, but if someone had told me when I was 15, 16, 17 years old that I-d play a thousand games as a professional basketball player, I had probably have been pretty happy for Jordan Shoes. Nash became the 10th active player in the league to reach the 1,000- game milestone. Coach Alvin Gentry called it an unbelievable accomplishment, especially considering the Suns style of play since Nash returned to Phoenix from Dallas.
Those 480 or 500 games that he has played here or whatever it is, is probably more like 650 with the pace that he has played the last six years, Gentry said, and the things that he has done with this team and all the plays that we have asked him to make. That is a lot of Jordan Shoes right there. Nash-s favorite receiver, Amare Stoudemire, had a dominating 36-point, 12-rebound performance.