Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

by Chuck Klosterman

I’ve never watched A.I. shop for baby food, and it’s possible that Nash merely hates getting wet. But the bottom line is that Steve Nash can accelerate in a way that you cannot possibly comprehend. Have you ever seen a college pitcher get struck by a line drive that was hit off an aluminum bat? He’s like that line drive, except faster. So Steve Nash is fast. But here’s the second thing I learned, and this matters more: STEVE NASH IS NOT TECHNICALLY A COMMUNIST. Or at least he’s not a good one, since (as previously stated) he gets paid $63 million for throwing bounce passes to guys who barely graduated high school. In practice, he is a more successful capitalist than Don Lapre. But in theory, Nash is the most successful socialist in contemporary athletics. And socialism works in sports. It doesn’t work in a free society, and it certainly didn’t work in Russia. But the principles of socialism make the Phoenix Suns almost impossible to defend, and that’s due in totality to Nash, a long-haired liberal thriving inside the conservative idiom of sports.