During his divorce from director Alejandra Amarilla, former Los Angeles Lakers coach Steve Nash went through a contentious custody battle over their three children, one of whom was a newborn. A decade ago, Steve Nash’s personal life was a nightmare.
Today, he coaches the Brooklyn Nets, lives in New York, and is happily remarried to former U.S. team volleyball star Lilla Frederick, with whom he shares a gorgeous three-year-old boy, Luca, and a baby daughter.
Nash and his wife of five years, Alejandra Amarilla, separated during most of Amarilla’s pregnancy and filed for divorce in the same month (November) that they announced the birth of their third child. A heated custody fight was about to begin.
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Steve Nash Divorce
Steve Nash and Alejandra Amarilla separated five days after the birth of their third child in 2011 because the baby was a mixed race even though Nash was white. As another example of how this kind of thing affects the team as a whole, Jason Richardson was the player who was accused of having sexual contact with Nash’s wife.
Nash stated Richardson’s trade to Orlando, in which he described the event as “bittersweet” given that he and his wife were in the midst of a divorce. The Suns cut ties with Richardson due to the turmoil he caused in the locker room. Canada’s Steve Nash, then with the Dallas Mavericks, met Paraguay’s Alejandra Amarilla in New York City in 2001. She was a filmmaker.
The couple welcomed twins, Lola and Bella, after dating for three years. After dating for a year, the two became engaged in June 2004, and by June 2005, they were married. Steve had just returned to Arizona to play for the Phoenix Suns when they made the happy announcement of their third pregnancy.
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Steve Nash And His NBA Eccentricity
Steve Nash was taken by the Suns in the first round of the 1996 NBA Draft, and he spent the next 18 years split between Phoenix, the Mavericks, and the Lakers. In his first two seasons with the Suns, Nash became the first Canadian and the 10th player in NBA history to win league MVP honours twice.
Nash has made the NBA All-Star team eight times and has been named to the First Team All-NBA three times. Nash concluded his career third all-time with 10,335 assists, after spending five seasons as the NBA’s assist-per-game leader. Throughout over 1,200 regular season games, Nash averaged 14 points, 8.5 assists, and 3 rebounds.
Nash attended Santa Clara University and was named West Coast Conference Player of the Year twice before making it to the NBA. Nash and the 15th-seeded Santa Clara team pulled off one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history by defeating the No. 2-seeded Arizona Wildcats.
Nash, one of Canada’s all-time great athletes, won the Canadian Male Athlete of the Year award a record three years in a row beginning in 2005. He was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in the 2020-21 class. Nash became only the fifth Canadian to enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018, and he was chosen for the NBA’s 75th-anniversary squad in 2022.
