Steve Nash signed an extension with the Suns this past offseason because he felt there was too much uncertainty surrounding the summer of 2010.

If Nash didn't sign the extension with Phoenix, he would have been a free agent after the season. The Knicks likely would have included Nash among their potential targets this coming summer.

"I definitely looked at it and considered playing it out and seeing what happened next summer. I just felt like there was just too much speculation over what could happen next summer," Nash said. "There's too much speculation on so many things. Not just what opportunities that would be there for myself, but also a constricting [salary] cap.

"So you wait a summer and you go somewhere and they can't afford to sign a superstar and maybe you're stuck, so there was just too much speculation for me to give up an opportunity that I felt my allegiances were with -- my teammates, the organization -- and I felt like we had a project that we started on, and just because we had one bad year didn't mean you had to give up on it."