Ranking the 10 Best Players to Never Win an NBA Title

#5 Steve Nash

Steve Nash

Career Averages: 14.3 Points, 8.5 Assists, 3 Rebounds

Honors: 2x MVP, 8x All-Star, 7x All NBA selections

Steve Nash is one of the greatest playmakers of all time. An excellent passer, he was also an incredibly efficient shooter, making four entries to the illustrious 50-40-90 club. It's shooting 50% from the field, 40% from 3 and 90% from the free throw line. He led the league in assists 5 times and has the highest free throw shooting % in league history. He is one of only three point guards to win multiple MVP's, the other two being Magic Johnson and Stephen Curry.

The knock on Nash for most of his career has been that he was an average defender at best. Much like Paul, Nash was unlucky to play in the West during the mid-2000's. He led the Suns and the Mavericks to a combined four Conference Finals in 2003, 05, 06, 10 but was unlucky with injuries in three of them. Dirk Nowitzki got injured in 03, Joe Johnson in 05, and Amar'e Stoudemire in 06.

For most of his career, the Spurs have been his nemesis, they knocked him out of the Playoffs 7 times. Nash would get his only series win against the Spurs in 2010, but the Suns lost a closely contested Conference Finals to the Lakers. While his defense has often been criticized, Nash made up for it with his offense. For much of the 2000's, he engineered some of the highest scoring teams the league had seen in years.