The Nash sporting worlds will collide Wednesday when York United faces the Vancouver Whitecaps, co-owned by brother/Basketball Hall of Famer Steve Nash in a one-off Canadian Championship semifinal.
It is an opportunity that never presented itself to a young Martin Nash: the chance to play high-level professionalon home soil in a league that’s as much about developing players and allowing them to achieve their goals as anything else.
“I feel I have something to give back to the game as far as understanding the game, being able to teach the game,” he said. “This is a great opportunity for young players, late bloomers, to see if they can have a career. There may be something genetic that factors into Nash becoming a head coach after a long professional career that included 38 caps for Canada over 13 years.is operating at a different coaching level with the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets — dealing with athletes making $40 million a year, instead of some earning $40,000 in the CPL — but the similarities are not insignificant.