"The Knicks inquired with the Phoenix Suns about the availability of two-time MVP Steve Nash, ESPN colleagues Marc Stein and Chad Ford are reporting in a news story today regarding the Minnesota Timberwolves' efforts to acquire Nash in a deal that would include the No. 2 overall pick in the NBA draft.

I also have been hearing that efforts by the Knicks and other teams to acquire Nash have been falling flat, because the Suns are not presently inclined to move him.

But Nash is entering the final year of his contract on a team that needs to begin rebuilding, and logic dictates that there could come a time when the Suns might chance their stance -- especially if Nash decided to press the issue, which he has shown no inclination to do ... yet.

If you are reading this from New York and you would like to make your own personal appeal to Nash to push for a trade to the Knicks, you have a chance to do so tonight in Chinatown when Nash plays in his fourth annual charity soccer event in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. (Stein will be playing, too, trying to sweat off all the In-and-Out Burgers he has gobbled up since the West Coast recently franchise opened a restaurant in Stein's town, Dallas).

And Nash is not the only player who can be lobbied.

Grant Hill, an unrestricted free agent who will be open to signing a one-year deal with a team looking to add a veteran piece, also is expected to play. "