“If [Nash] is successful, one can look back and say, it didn’t matter that he doesn’t have any experience,” said Colangelo, who is now the director of USA Basketball and chairman of the basketball Hall of Fame. “If he struggles, you look at that box that was unchecked and say, well, the inexperience really cost him. So it’s an unknown, it’s a big unknown. It’s a gamble but probably a good gamble because of all his attributes.”