Deal Nash next? Suns owner scoffs

Steve Nash was smiling freely late Friday night, feeling as fortunate as he ever has with the Phoenix Suns, genuinely looking happier than he had ever been to be standing in a hallway surrounded by a pack of media pests.

"At least I can walk," Nash said.

He wasn't kidding, either.

Earlier in the evening, Nash endured the scariest episode of his athletic life, less than five minutes into the first quarter of his nationally televised reunion with the Dallas Mavericks and old friend Dirk Nowitzki. The face of the Suns ran head-first into Tyson Chandler's hip in a chase for a loose ball and was immediately floored by a football-type stinger that briefly robbed him of all feeling in his arms and legs.

"I had 10 seconds where I thought, 'Oh, s---,'" Nash said. "I couldn't feel anything and my head was stuck."

Moral of the story: After a no-joke scare like that -- quickly as it seemingly passed on TV -- Nash couldn't muster sustained outrage about the Suns' current plight or Saturday's trade surrender of a Jason Richardson to Orlando even if he wanted to.