Kudos to the National Basketball Assocition for rewarding Suns guard Steve Nash’s brilliant year with a Most Valuable Player Award. (I remember watching Nash outplay superstar Jason Kidd in a college game in 1993 and thinking “Who’s this skinny Canadian kid with big hair, eh?”) Much ink has now been spilled over Nash’s skin color (white) and the alleged racism the award therefore represents, but Nash’s anti-war views have received less attention. Nash happens to be a stalwart opponent of US interventionism, as Counterpunch’s Dave Zirin reminds us. Nash was the first high profile athlete to come out against Dick … Continue reading The NBA’s Anti-War MVP