Steve Nash retired following a successful 19-year career in the NBA, but the 41-year-old may not be done playing sports. 

According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, Nash may get a chance to play with the North American Soccer League’s New York Cosmos B team.

“The future NBA Hall of Famer trained this week the New York Cosmos B Team of the National Premier Soccer League, the Daily News has learned, and there’s a possibility he plays Sunday in a game against the Rhode Island Reds,” Bondy wrote. 

The Cosmos B team is having a good start to the season, with Bondy noting they currently have an 8-0-1 record entering play Sunday. 

Nash is a well-known soccer fan. His foundation holds an annual “Showdown” event in cities like New York and Los Angeles, in which he and other NBA players join forces with professional soccer players in a game to raise money for charity. 

In 2013, Nash had a courtesy tryout with Inter Milan in an effort to help bring publicity to the Guinness International Champions Cup tournament in Miami that year. 

Nash’s NBA career ended with a whimper, as he went from winning back-to-back MVP awards in 2005 and 2006 to saying he wasn’t going to retire before his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers ran out so he could get all the money on his deal.

While Nash and the Lakers’ marriage ended without him playing a game last season, the former All-Star point guard is apparently healthy and ready to give his other sport of choice a shot if the New York Cosmos B team wants him.   

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