Steve Nash - Valiant Effort vs. Parker and the Spurs (2007 WCSF Game 1)

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2007 Western Conference Semi Finals Game 1

The Spurs drew first blood in the series. Steve Nash poured in 31 points and dished out 8 assists but it wasnt enough as the Spurs were able to escape with the pivotal game 1 win Phoenix. Steve and Tony Parker collided heads late in the 4th. Parker was fine after a few minutes but Nash cut his nose open. He couldn't stop the bleeding enough to stay on the court for the rest of the game. He checked back into the game to score a big 3 pointer and a layup to bring PHX within 2 points with 1 minute to play. He started bleeding on the court so he had to be placed on the bench until the bleeding stopped. The Spurs expanded the lead to 110-106 with 10 seconds left and the ball before Nash was able to come back in. Without Nash on the court for the final minute, the Suns scored just 2 points on Amare Stoudemire free throws. This was the much anticipated rematch of the 2005 WCF. Most of us knew the winner of this series would win the title that year...THIS WAS THE FINALS as far as I'm concerned. I am a Spurs fan, but I feel for Nash here. He couldnt play when his team needed him most.

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[XddJohn]

miss the old phoenix suns amare nash marion

[guitarking42]

WTF is wrong with the scoreboard?

[Jan Yap]

Heart of a champion

[Edward Mamuyac]

one of the best suns 5....nash,barbosa,diaw,marion,­stoudemire

[techno buffalo]

even if nash never wins a championship, he will still have all the respect in our heart as if he is a champion.

this man is a true fighter, every night he has been consistent ready for game as if he was fighting for ring.

i hope lakers make good use of him next year.

[techno buffalo]

never understood why they didnt win championship. they have the skills and talent.

even though i was a lakers fan at that time, i still wished suns to win finals just because of nash.

[ARAMx128]

hill, and bell



[mmmkay419]

i stopped watching NBA when Suns traded their players....i miss the old Suns too

[berserker96]

you can also blame Stoudemire for being an idiot. Very talented at finishing around the rim but in reality he had a primadonna mentality. STAT owes most of his stardom success to Nash for hitting him with incredible passes in easy scoring range. If Amare was a true star he would have never got off that bench to go after Horry, OR he wouldv'e been decisive and went and promptly knocked his ass out.

But yeh, this was the year the Suns were at their peak. The Nash offense was unstoppable.

[berserker96]

I have no respect for the Spurs franchise after this, I watched the entire series and saw endless cheap, dirty play by them. They knew the Suns were gonna torch them and they weaseled their way into the conf. finals. This 2nd rd.series was the true NBA finals that year. Very heated rivalry between these 2 teams. The dirty refs let the Spurs use cheap flopping tricks, sending their players like goons to instigate fights, etc. They do not deserve the 07 title one bit.

[berserker96]

I was at this game. The crowd we went insane in the final minutes. The Spurs played incredibly rough throughout the series and yes, you can blame the refs, including Donaghy, for for allowing this to happen. No other year were the Suns as fearsome on offense as this year 2007. This year they were truly robbed by a less-skilled dirty-playing Spurs team and the dirty refs who were rigging the over/under of playoff games. Heres to the PHX 07 champs title shouldve been instead of the dirty spurs.

[hguntupalli]

If only Nash had a ring..our generations John Stockton