PGLALNBA🏛 Hall of Fame · 2018 📈 Late Developer · 2007

Steve Nash

6'3" · 178 lbsBorn February 7, 19741997–2014College: Santa ClaraDraft: 1996 · Rd 1, Pick 15 · Phoenix SunsESPN ↗

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

NBA profile

Peak 3Y VAL

20.7

2006, 2007, 2008 avg

Career VAL

208.5

Value Above League

Games

908

Points

14,562

Rebounds

2,951

Assists

8,916

Win Shares

114.5

Playoff VAL

81.6

postseason

College Stats

College Per Game

Season	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1993	Santa Clara	31	—	24.0	42.4%	40.8%	82.5%	2.5	2.2	0.8	0.1	8.1
1994	Santa Clara	26	23	29.9	41.4%	39.9%

All-time standings

Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002

On the NBA Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.

Cross-sport prominence: 99.5th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

A standing above rests on a career total that predates the corpus, so the true figure is higher than shown.

Franchise face

Etched into 2 franchise monuments

#1 · Phoenix Suns137.4 legacy · 59% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence #2 · Dallas Mavericks82.4 legacy · 35% attributed career shareVAL × verified franchise tenure, with bounded honors evidence

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On the boards· Appears on 5 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VAL NBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.

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Wikipedia — Facts extracted under Feist v. Rural Telephone; courtesy CC-BY-SA attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TOPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	VAL
1997	22–23	PHX	65	10.5	3.3	1.0	2.1	0.3	0.0	—	42.3%	41.8%	82.4%	0.00
1998	23–24	PHX	76	21.9	9.1	2.1	3.4	0.8	0.1	—	45.9%	41.5%	86.0%	0.06
1999	24–25	DAL	40	31.7	7.9	2.9	5.5	0.9	0.1	—	36.3%	37.4%	82.6%	0.06
2000	25–26	DAL	56	27.4	8.6	2.2	4.9	0.7	0.1	—	47.7%	40.3%	88.2%	0.10
2001	26–27	DAL	70	34.1	15.6	3.2	7.3	1.0	0.1	—	48.7%	40.6%	89.5%	0.20
2002	27–28	DAL	82	34.6	17.9	3.1	7.7	0.6	0.0	2.8	48.3%	45.5%	88.7%	0.16
2003	28–29	DAL	82	33.1	17.7	2.9	7.3	1.0	0.1	2.3	46.5%	41.3%	90.9%	0.20
2004	29–30	DAL	78	33.5	14.5	3.0	8.8	0.9	0.1	2.7	47.0%	40.5%	91.6%	0.15
2005	30–31	PHX	75	34.3	15.5	3.3	11.5	1.0	0.1	3.3	50.2%	43.1%	88.7%	0.25
2006	31–32	PHX	78	35.4	18.8	4.2	10.4	0.8	0.2	3.5	51.3%	43.5%	92.0%	0.27
2007	32–33	PHX	76	35.3	18.6	3.5	11.6	0.8	0.1	3.8	53.2%	45.5%	89.9%	0.29
2008	33–34	PHX	81	34.3	16.9	3.5	11.1	0.7	0.1	3.6	50.4%	47.0%	90.6%	0.24
2009	34–35	PHX	74	33.6	15.7	3.0	9.7	0.7	0.1	3.4	50.3%	43.9%	93.3%	0.17
2010	35–36	PHX	81	32.9	16.5	3.3	11.0	0.5	0.1	3.6	50.7%	42.6%	93.8%	0.20
2011	36–37	PHX	75	33.3	14.7	3.5	11.4	0.6	0.1	3.5	49.2%	39.5%	91.2%	0.19
2012	37–38	PHX	62	31.6	12.5	3.0	10.7	0.6	0.1	3.7	53.2%	39.0%	89.4%	0.18
2013	38–39	LAL	49	32.6	12.7	2.8	6.7	0.6	0.1	2.6	49.4%	42.9%	93.0%	0.11
2014	39–40	LAL	15	20.9	6.8	1.9	5.7	0.5	0.1	2.1	38.3%	33.3%	91.7%	—

Steve Nash

NBA Stats

Career Snapshot

College Stats

College Per Game

All-time standings

Etched into 2 franchise monuments

On the boards· Appears on 5 boards

Boards that rank NBA careers

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Cross-Sport Career Standing

Career Geography