Steve Nash: Future Accomplishments As A Phoenix Sun

When people from all over the world watch the NBA these days, there are a few number of players they wish they could be like.

When people from all over the world want to be like any point guard in the NBA, Steve Nash is usually that guy.

The career that Nash has had is like no other. Year after year he continues to impress fans by not only making himself better, but allowing his teammates to take their skills to a whole new level. As soon as he arrived back in Phoenix for the 2004-05 season, everyone has been amazed at the plays and team chemistry he is able to create each and every night.

At the current age of 36, Nash is playing some of the best basketball of his career and has the ability to only improve on that. Right now he is the best passer and shooter in the game and possesses one of the highest on court IQs. Coming off of a successful season with the Suns there are a few more achievements that he can add to his already Hall of Fame bound career.

Here is the list of accomplishments you can expect Nash to achieve next season:

• Having played 1,015 games in his fourteen year career, he can move from eighty-six all-time to close to fifty or better with 82 plus games.

• He has the chance to break into the top 100 scorers of all time by approaching 15,500 points.

• He can pass Mark Price for the most efficient free throw shooter of all-time, he is only behind .1% at 90.3%.

• Nash can surpass ex-Suns Kevin Johnson for third all-time in players who have had double-doubles with points and assists, he only needs eleven more of those games to have 320 total.
  

• Pass Drazen Petrovic for fourth all-time in three point percentage.
  

• Nash has dished out a total of 8,397 assists to put him eight on the all-time list. He has the opportunity to pass Gary Payton and Isiah Thomas to become sixth all-time with over 9,100 assists next season. With two more years on his contract Suns fans have the opportunity to see him become fifth of all-time, passing the great Oscar Robertson with 9,888 assists. If he doesn't retire after his current contract, he could quite possibly be third on that list.

• One more feat Steve Nash could pull off is something only four players in league history have done: to shoot 50% or better from the field, 40% or better from three-point, and 90% or better from the free throw line. Larry Bird and Nash are the only players to do it more than three times. Nash has done it now five years in a row. There looks to be no reason why the sixth won't come this next season.
  

Easily making a case to be considered one of the top ten point guards of all-time, a few more seasons and Nash could see himself in the top five.

Steve Nash, John Stockton and Jason Kidd are the best point guards to never win a title, but both Stockton and Kidd had the advantage of making it to the Finals. Nash has come close, but never close enough.

Is one title enough for Steve Nash to be consider better than those two or will his play say enough? One thing we know is that he can still play basketball better than most players in their 20's, and better than most players ever will.

Along with his stats and achievements, his ability to play the game at a consistently high-level is enough to make it to the Hall of Fame and be considered a great.

Stay tuned Suns fans, even though Cleveland never was, you may be the true witnesses.