Hollywood’s Newest Star: Suns Trade Steve Nash To Lakers

With Team USA’s Olympic training camp under way, there’s plenty of NBA stars under the same roof ready and willing to discuss the ongoing free agency period.

Regardless of what happens to the Lakers roster through the summer, just know that Kobe will be watching closely.

It would be weirder if they didn’t find a way to pull a fourth superstar out of thin air and keep themselves in the title conversation for the next three years. This is why the Lakers are the NBA’s Illuminati. The same way there’s definitely a secret society of free masons out there choosing U.S. Presidents and co-opting various rappers to control our universe, the Lakers are the shadowy hoops force that steals superstars for nothing, strikes when nobody expects it and somehow always end up at the top of the NBA. This is just how the world works.

The Knicks are the corporation that’s too big and entrenched to ever fail, but too reckless and impatient to ever really succeed. Then 3,000 miles away, you have the Lakers -- the team that rarely courts stars in public, stays quiet and waits patiently, then hits with surgical, devastating strikes. After two years and 500,000 Nash-to-the-Knicks rumors, Nash wound up in L.A. because the Lakers are the inevitable superpower the Knicks pretend to be.

Nash in Hollywood? Even for one of the NBA’s biggest stars, it feels strange, and the aftershocks will definitely be felt for a while. Let’s try to answer some of the questions from the aftermath of the deal.

They better.

In Los Angeles, Hill could provide a boost to the thin Lakers bench.

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While it likely won’t change the immediate reaction of Phoenix fans, it was still a very classy move by Nash.

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For more news on where Nash may end up, check out Suns blog Bright Side of the Sun and SB Nation Arizona.