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Does Steve Nash Always Look This Weird, Or Is It The Lakers Jersey?

“I think it would be hard for me to put on a Lakers jersey,” Steve Nash once said. He claimed it was because he’s old school, but the truth has been revealed: he looks weird. Like, weirder than normal, possibly.

Here he is — no longer #13 but #10, no longer a Sun but a Laker, no more orange and grey but purple and gold. There are plenty of reasons to feel uncomfortable with Nash in a Lakers jersey, from the playoff battles between Phoenix and L.A. to the fact that he once seemed destined for the East Coast.

But, um, Steve, you’re looking kinda like my dad here. You look like a guy who won a raffle and got to put on some NBA gear, before possibly meeting Josh McRoberts and receiving a Costco gift card. Did you always look so skinny, so tiny, so white? You really won two MVP awards? How is it that your girlfriend is so incredibly hot and you look like an accountant from North Dakota?

It’s just too weird for words. I don’t even know if I want to watch the Lakers at all this year, if Nash is going to keep looking like this.

[Larry Brown Sports, photo credit @Lakers]

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