The reason we were talking about political theory is mostly due to a story that ran in The New York Times last January. During a midseason interview, Nash casually mentioned that he had been reading The Communist Manifesto (as well as the autobiography of Che Guevara) on a road trip. One gets the sense that this is the kind of statement he regrets, simply because (a) it ended up becoming the only thing anyone remembers from that story, and (b) it was immediately (and incorrectly) connected to pacifist statements he had made at the 2003 All-Star Game. “I honestly don’t want to say anything
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