Steve Nash hilariously tells a Twitter troll to either watch his mouth 'or Temecula'

Nearly retired Los Angeles Lakers point guard Steve Nash emerged from a bit of a Twitter hibernation to live-tweet the Barcelona/Man City match on Tuesday. Because Nash is a public figure, a Laker, and someone who has ticked off Laker fans by refusing to retire, he also took in quite a few nasty Twitter responses while chatting up the soccer match.

The one that sparked Nash’s ire the most? Well, we can’t exactly embed here, due to its (typically) awful language. What we can do is embed a few other messages that this Laker fan sent the future Basketball Hall of Famer:

We also can’t embed Steve Nash’s fantastic response, as it quotes that initial burst of awful language, but we can quote Steve’s challenge to “Dean the Mad King.” It reads like this:

The ‘Temecula’ reference, for those of you just hopping on board now, is two months old:

If you’ll recall, on Christmas another tough-guy Laker fan challenged someone on Twitter to a fight because that person dared call out Kobe Bryant’s less-than-stellar shooting season with Los Angeles. The critic duped the Laker fan into driving 35 minutes to Temecula, CA for a fight that would never take place. The critic/duper/would-be pugilist, now beside himself with laughter, was hundreds of miles in Arizona celebrating Christmas with his family.

We have no idea where Steve Nash’s current whereabouts are. What we do know is that Nash’s tweet – already re-tweeted thousands of times – just about chased his potty-mouthed foil off of Twitter dot com for a little while …

… which is probably a good thing for all involved.

Nash angered the same Laker fans that swooned over his arrival in 2012 …

… by refusing to retire last year. His retirement would have cleared nearly $10 million off of the Lakers’ salary cap last season, but as the 2014 offseason proved; great players wanted nothing to do with signing with the Lakers in spite of all that cap space.

Of course, that hasn’t stopped some dumb Laker fans from saying dumb things to Nash via Twitter or his Instagram page, forcing Nash (who rightfully isn’t going to walk away from $9.7 million) to pen a letter to those dumb fans on Facebook last fall. Lakers Nation is full of intelligent, mindful basketball-fiends who are both rife with tact and hoop knowledge, but because the breadth of the team’s fandom is so significant there are always going to be a few or ten thousand dumb ones that just don’t get it.

Anonymously. On the internet.

On Tuesday, Steve Nash let one of those dumb-dumbs have it. You know where to find him.

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Kelly Dwyer

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