"He's kept his body to where he's as good physically as he was when he was 20," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said, "but he's a hell of a lot smarter."

"A lot of people misread that," [Steve Nash] said. "My focus was really to get people involved and talking and more informed and digging a little deeper than the mainstream media. At the same time, I voiced the opinion that I was anti-war in all circumstances, but particularly this one. Some people took that as anti-American or whatever. That wasn't my purpose."

"It's a free-market society. If I were to just call it out of whack, then I'd be leaning toward socialism," Nash said, "and I don't think socialism, for many of its positive merits, is practical with human psychology."