{"id":136907,"date":"2025-04-29T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=136907"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:45:19","slug":"steve-nash-hired-for-amazon-nba-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/04\/29\/steve-nash-hired-for-amazon-nba-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Nash Goes from Podcast Chair to Amazon Studio Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s be honest. When Mind the Game season 2 was announced by\u00a0<\/span>LeBron James<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on The Pat McAfee Show<\/em> a month ago, and\u00a0<\/span>Steve Nash<\/span><\/a>\u00a0would take over for JJ Redick, you expected Nash to get another head coaching opportunity for the 2025-26 season. LeBron tried to get ahead of it by making an important disclaimer at the start of the first episode: if Nash got another coaching job, it wasn’t because of the podcast. Well, Nash won’t be following in Redick’s footsteps directly, but he will follow in them differently as the former two-time league MVP is returning to the NBA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Nash Goes from Podcast Chair to Amazon Studio Chair<\/h2>\n

Steve Nash headed to Amazon for 2025-26 NBA coverage<\/h3>\n

Nash’s first\u00a0<\/span>coaching gig with the Brooklyn Nets<\/span><\/a>\u00a0went every which way he wouldn’t have wanted it to. The Nets massively underachieved, but it wasn’t all on Nash’s shoulders. It was a drama-filled, injury-plagued tenure for which he can hardly be blamed. Pay any attention to him and LeBron during the podcast episodes<\/a>. There’s no doubt Nash knows basketball, and his IQ is incredibly high. He can coach, and he may one day get that second opportunity. For now, Nash is taking his talents to a different NBA sphere: the studio.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, NBA insider Marc Stein of The Steinline reported<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Nash will begin working for Amazon next season. He’ll be part of the studio coverage that includes former\u00a0<\/span>Los Angeles Clippers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0star <\/span>Blake Griffin<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and Nash’s former Dallas Mavericks teammate,\u00a0<\/span>Dirk Nowitzki<\/span><\/a>. TNT’s NBA reporter Taylor Rooks will host Amazon’s studio coverage. Watching Nash and Nowitzki chalk it up in a studio setting about basketball should be enjoyable. Considering we’ve been listening to Nash chalk it up with LeBron about the very same thing, there is every reason to believe he will succeed in his upcoming role.<\/span><\/p>\n

Together again<\/h3>\n

The Nowitzki factor may be the most exciting aspect of Nash joining Amazon. The two former teammates started playing together in Dallas in 1999. It was Nowitzki’s rookie season, and they played together for six years before Nash returned to the\u00a0<\/span>Phoenix Suns<\/span><\/a>, with whom he was drafted. In those six years, the Mavericks made the playoffs in four consecutive seasons and the Western Conference finals in 2003. Nash returned to Phoenix the following season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nash and Nowitzki had great chemistry on the floor together. It will be exciting to see what type of chemistry they can build together in the studio, talking about the very game they excelled in at the highest level.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s be honest. When Mind the Game season 2 was announced by\u00a0LeBron James\u00a0on The Pat McAfee Show a month ago, and\u00a0Steve Nash\u00a0would take over for JJ Redick, you expected Nash to get another head coaching opportunity for the 2025-26 season. LeBron tried to get ahead of it by making an important disclaimer at the start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5081,"featured_media":136909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1608,62],"tags":[226,161,38,1186],"class_list":["post-136907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-basketball","category-nba","tag-blake-griffin","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-lebron-james","tag-steve-nash"],"modified_by":"Aaron J Zacharias","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136922,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136907\/revisions\/136922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}