Steve Nash may be best known as a two-time NBA MVP, but he is also an Olympian and an Olympic cauldron lighter.
For Canada, Nash’s senior international basketball days go back to the 1994 World Championship, where Shaquille O’Neal-led Dream Team II took gold.
Nash, then 20 years old, and the Canadians finished seventh.
In 1995, Nash and Canada lost two winner-goes-to-the-Olympics contests at FIBA Americas, just missing qualifying for the Atlanta 1996 Games.
Nash made it to the Olympics for Sydney 2000, where Canada lost in the quarterfinals to eventual silver medalist France.