Steve Nash was part of the legendary 1996 NBA draft class that featured legends like Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson, yet one could argue that he became the second-best player in the class barring the legendary ‘Black Mamba’ of course. A passing wizard on the court, Nash is one of the greatest facilitating point guards the NBA has ever seen.
In an era where size was paramount, a 6’3 skinny point guard was running the show. Nash led one of the greatest offensive units of all time, ‘The Seven Seconds or Less’ Suns.
Nash has always been underrated for his play, despite being a former two-time back-to-back MVP and playing for some big market teams like the Dallas Mavericks and even the Los Angeles Lakers. Nash did his job and he did it very well, but his gameplay wasn’t flashy enough to show up on the highlight reel every night.Sure, he made some passes that even Magic Johnson would be impressedby but he wasn’t out there putting people on a poster. No, he preferred to dish it off to Amar’e Stoudamire to do the posterizing.
Steve Nash is worth $95 million in 2024
For a player who played 19 seasons in the NBA, this seems quite low by today’s standards, but that’s just what the economy was like in the early 2000s. Steve Nash’s highest-paid season came in 2009-2010 with him earning a reported $13.1 million while playing for the Phoenix Suns.
For reference, in today’s NBA, Spencer Dinwiddie of the Brooklyn Nets earns a base salary of $18 million while playing definitely below an All-NBA/MVP standard. Fortunately, Nash has been smart with his career earnings and made a sizable amount of investments to protect his wealth after his playing days.
During his career, Nash first had a shoe deal with Nike, however, he was never given his own signature shoe line. Nash mostly played in Kobe’s for the majority of his early career, but in 2011 when his contract with Nike ended, rather than resigning Nash chose to sign with a lesser-known Chinese brand Luyou.
With Luyou he finally received his own signature shoe the ‘Steve Nash 1’ although this would take a significant amount of time to go into production, so Nash ended up wearing the Nike Zoom Go Low even though he wasn’t under contract.
Apart from his shoe deal, Nash has endorsement deals with MDG Computers, Raymond Weil Watches, Vitamin Water, and Clearly Canadian bottled water. You can see Nash’s intent by representing mainly Canadian companies such as MDG Computers and Clearly Canadian bottled water, as he is half Canadian half South African.
In 2024, after Nash’s recent coaching stint with the Nets where he earned a reported $8 million, his net worth is estimated to be to the tune of $95 million, which is certainly a respectable amount considering that he has earned over $220 million from his career salaries already (that is before taxes and various other fees).