Steve Nash Training for Potential Debut with New York Cosmos B Team

Steve Nash retired following a successful 19-year career in the NBA, but the 41-year-old may not be done playing sports competitively. 

According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, Nash may get a chance to play with the National Premier Soccer League's New York Cosmos B Team.

"The future NBA Hall of Famer trained this week the New York Cosmos B Team of the National Premier Soccer League, the Daily News has learned, and there’s a possibility he plays Sunday in a game against the Rhode Island Reds," Bondy wrote. 

The Cosmos B Team is having a good start to the season, with Bondy noting it currently has an 8-0-1 record entering play Sunday. 

Nash is a notorious soccer fan, and this isn't his first foray into the world of professional football. In 2013, Nash had a courtesy tryout with Inter Milan in an effort to bring publicity to the Guinness International Champions Cup tournament in Miami that year. Nash talked about the experience with NBA.com:

"As a lifelong lover of the sport, to get a chance to play with these great players and this great club is a dream come true," he said after that practice two years ago.

His foundation holds an annual "Showdown" event in cities such as New York and Los Angeles, in which he and other NBA players join forces with professional soccer players in a game to raise money for charity. 

Nash's NBA career ended with a whimper, as he went from winning back-to-back MVP awards in 2004-05 and 2005-06 to refusing to retire before his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers ran out so he could get all the money owed to him despite having suffered a season-ending injury.

While Nash and the Lakers' marriage ended without him playing a game last season, the former All-Star point guard is apparently healthy and ready to give his other sport of choice a shot if the New York Cosmos B Team wants him.