He'd Be My First Pick at the Playground*

Congratulations to Steve Nash on winning the NBA's most Valuable Player Award. See here for the hometown boy makes good take and see here for a premature but dead-on basketball take. On or off the court, Nash is the kind of guy who makes you proud to say, 'he's a Canadian'.

Update on May 11: I was remiss in not noting that the Canadian Cynic went into more details on why Steve Nash is a great role model off the court in this post from a few weeks back.

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* Assuming we had a ref at the playground - otherwise I'd take Shaq :)