Steve Nash made it plain. No back-stopping, stepping back or backing down.
“We’re playing for a championship,” Nash said an hour-long “town hall” with Ian Eagle that aired on the YES Network. “I don’t want to say that anything less than a championship is not a success because you never know what happens in life, you never know the way the ball bounces. Fortune is a big part of winning an NBA championship.
“But we are playing for a championship and we’re going to build accordingly. We’re going to frame everything we do in the lens of, ‘Is this a championship characteristic?