07-16-2005, 10:09 AM
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Toronto Sun: Unlike Carter, Nash gets it
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YOU COULDN'T help thinking of Vince Carter yesterday as you listened to Steve Nash talking about his new charity exhibition game.
It's natural enough.
The league's reigning MVP was in town yesterday to promote a July 29 contest at the Air Canada Centre that will include Allen Iverson, Amare Stoudemire, Shawn Marion and Michael Finley as well as Raptors Rafer Alston and Chris Bosh and Morris Peterson.
That charity game was Carter's annual public show of keeping it real.
Now Nash is the guy.
Yesterday brought the requisite photo-op, a mini-clinic for a bunch of youngsters at Bathurst and Queen's Quay, and a good many attentive Nike people on hand to oversee the donation of $100,000 worth of stuff to local kids.
About the time Nash told the players the best part of the game was sharing the ball with teammates and that he often battles fragile confidence, the differences between the new guy and the gone guy began to gnaw at you.
Look, this isn't to pile a few final grains of dirt on Carter, honestly it isn't. It's just that a year ago at his game, Carter kept a pile of media waiting 15 minutes while he finished a game of HORSE, then jacked around his fans by refusing to admit to his trade request....
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Toronto Sun: Unlike Carter, Nash gets it
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