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John Nash: World War
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Prior to the Nets, Nash spent six seasons with the Washington Bullets/Wizards. Nash showed why he is well regarded as a talent evaluator in the league by plucking future NBA All-Stars Juwan Howard, Rasheed Wallace, and Tom Gugliotta from the NBA draft and trading for Chris Webber. Nash got his start as a GM during a nine-year stint with the Philadelphia 76ers highlighted by a World Championship in 1983.
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John rarely attended class, insisting that it would ruin his originality. He constantly looked for ways to establish himself in the field of mathematics in order to become the world's greatest mathematician. He constantly walked through the hallways whistling Bach's "Little Fugue" and rode his bicycle in a figure-eight or infinity symbol in the quadrangle on campus.
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Nash was chosen as Official War Artist to the Admiralty in 1940, after joining the Observer Corps at the outbreak of the Second World War. Nash gave up painting in November of the same year in order to play a more active role in the fighting, and was commissioned as a Captain and then Acting Major in the Royal Marines. After the war he settled permanently in Wormingford near
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