Nash Keeps Eye on the Prize, Sweeping Spurs Despite Injury

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SAN ANTONIO -- Steve Nash might be from hockey country, but this was getting a little ridiculous.



Three years ago, the Spurs bloodied the nose of the Canadian in the playoffs and Nash's Suns suffered yet another frustrating loss to their rivals. Then Sunday night, just when things were going smoothly, boom, Nash gets hit again.



On a drive to the hoop midway through the third quarter, San Antonio forward Tim Duncan's left elbow banged into Nash's right eye. Nash again was bloodied on the floor.



"It just seems like everything, something always happens,'' Nash, whose Suns had dropped four straight series to San Antonio since 2003, with Nash being around for three. "We'd gone 3 ½ games clear sailing. It just seems like something always happens.''



The Phoenix star departed with 5:47 left in the third quarter with his team up 64-57. By the time he had returned from the locker room with six stitches covered by a bandage, the Spurs had briefly taken the lead and cut the deficit to 72-71 entering the fourth quarter.



Nash was back on the court to start the fourth, but the Suns were being led by a point guard who could see out of just one eye. To borrow from Ricky Ricardo, "Eye, yi, yi, yi.''

 

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