Steve Nash had a pretty game Wednesday night with 29 points, 11 assists and six rebounds in Phoenix’s 103-98 win over Utah. But his smile took a real pounding.

 Just before halftime, Nash won a rebound battle with Carlos Boozer but took an elbow to the mouth in the process, chipping one of his front teeth just before he was to do an intermission interview with ESPN Michelle Tafoya. Nash handed what was left of the tooth to trainer Aaron Nelson and answered a few questions, clowning about the tooth.

 ”I took and elbow or something and it chipped off,”Nash said, showing off his new crooked smile. “So I get to spend my day at the dentist, as luck would have it.”

 This isn’t the first time a Utah Jazz star has taken aim at the same tooth. “This one got bent backward into my mouth by Karl Malone five or six years ago, and last season I finally got a veneer put it. ”

 Well, at least Nash knows the drill — right?

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