Steve Nash is 800% less interesting as a basketball player with Shaquille O’Neal in his life instead of Mike D’Antoni and Shawn Marion. However, he’s still a dude who nailed Elizabeth Hurley in her prime and spends his offseason skateboarding around New York. And when he takes it upon himself to deliver an environmentally friendly message, he delivers it with a dig at the Spurs. Leave it to Nash to deliver energy-saving burns. He’s probably only still playing for the Suns to promote solar power.

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Here’s Steve Nash deadpanning around the Vitamin Water offices, and I’m equally entertained and annoyed by it.  Hey corporate assholes, stop making advertising that I enjoy!  It’s way more fun to bitch about the “Saved by Zero” song than it is to admit that something developed by marketers is actually well-conceived and smartly executed.  I don’t like re-evaluating my biases — like, say, Asians are good at math, or bloggers will suck anyone’s cock for a couple more page views.

After the jump, another Vitamin Water spot in which Nash evokes Zoolander, so be sure to click through!  C’mon, please?  I’ll suck your cock if you do!

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This video popped up in a few places late yesterday, but it was on a media player the size of a postage stamp.  Now you can actually see NBA point guards Steve Nash and Baron Davis in a trailer that's a spoof of Step Brothers that doesn't really spoof Step Brothers at all.  It's just Baron and Nash wearing ugly clothes and doing silly things — which is entertaining and rare enough in its own right. I mean, do you think LeBron Jame would wear a Cosby sweater and ride a tandem bike? 

Well, yes.  He would.  But only if it was while shooting Nike commercial that he was getting a million dollars for.  I think the trailer here is slightly less corporate.

St. Andrew's Net is With Leather's daily link dump. Pets get linked dumps when they eat tinsel during the holidays. Incidentally, that makes a good ornament for an adversary's home.

• SportsbyBrooks introduces the blogosphere to the 3BA, which is basketball for people who hate basketball. Kind of like how Tailor James is a woman for guys who hate women they can actually get with.
• In the world of freak baseball injuries, a foul pop-up takes out a fan's nose on Busted Coverage and Geoff Jenkins gets a shoulder full of broken bat on The Fightins'. Those are the sort of thing that makes a weekend of shut-in masturbation seem sensible.
• Machochip likens a new Adidas logo to that of the German SS. Asked for comments, former Nazis in Argentina said, "Shhhhh! Stop blowing our cover!"
• Barstool Sports presents Baron Davis and Steve Nash on a tandem bike. Because sitting on a seesaw while eating ice cream cones would've been too kitschy. 
• Chris Cooley's wife shows her beau support in classic T-shirt fashion on D.C. Sports Bog. Even though hot pants would have been more appropriate. 

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The Suns defeated the Jazz 103-98 last night in a hard-fought, (dare I say gritty? I do) gritty battle in Phoenix.  Steve Nash led his team with 29 points on 10-of-12 shooting to go with his 11 assists, six rebounds, and one chipped tooth courtesy Carlos Boozer (24/13/4 steals/steroids?).  Fittingly, the chunk of tooth that went missing was a cap that Nash had to get when the Jazz's previous asshole power forward, Karl Malone, cheap-shotted him. 

That's kind of a microcosm of why the Jazz will never win a championship.  Boozer and Deron Williams can't do anything without living in the shadow of Malone and Stockton.  The young duo may be exceptionally talented, but they'll never be the assholes that Stockton and Malone were.  They probably don't even vote Republican.

Elsewhere in the Association: Michael Redd and the Bucks send suddenly slumping Magic to their first three-game losing streak of the year… Sonics rookies step up to ensure that everyone understands the Knicks are worse than they are… Big Baby Glen Davis (not this guy) got his first NBA start, getting 16 points and 9 rebounds (and shooting 10-of-10 from the stripe) as the C's improved to 11-0 at home… The Pacers?  In a violent altercation?  Well, I never!  Troy Murphy's ejection sparks Indiana's 117-102 victory over Chicago.

[Video from Jen's Free Throws] 

Every now and again, I like to place the With Leather spotlight on athletes who aren't drunk driving or screwing hookers or organizing dogfighting syndicates or punching strippers or fathering children out of wedlock or assaulting or stabbing people. Today is one such instance.

Steve Nash worries about Chinese orphans.  Yao Ming is from China.  So after a Suns-Rockets game last March, Nash approached Yao about helping all those orphans in the Houston center's home country.  And looky what they did!  From TrueHoop:

On September 14, in Beijing, Steve Nash, Carmelo Anthony, Greg Oden, Bonzi Wells, Derek Fisher, Baron Davis, Chuck Hayes, and Leandro Barbosa… will play in a charity game against Yao Ming and the Chinese National team.

It will be televised on China's CCTV, and the stadium is expected to be sold out. The hope is to raise in the neighborhood of a million dollars to be distributed to the charities of choice: Chi Heng, a privately funded non-profit that works with children with AIDS; the Special Olympics (with World Summer Games next month in Shanghai); and the China Youth Development Foundation.

Sa-weet.  We're gonna kick some communist ass for charity.  Retard charity, even.  You're welcome, godless heathens.  U-S-A!  U-S-A!  (…umm, and Canada, I guess. As if Steve Nash had anything to do with this.)