“I think he’ll be an exciting player for Knicks fans. He’s able to handle that type of stuff (of being in New York) because he’s been at Duke but he’s also been one of the top, if not the No. 1 kid, since he’s been 13, 14 years old. So he’s able to handle it,” Nash told the Daily News in a phone interview from L.A. “And then to have Zion sort of eclipse him in the draft and in the public view this season, and then to watch the way he’s handled it and the way he’s been — he’s never pointed a finger, he never made an excuse.