Steve Nash and Shaquille O'Neal will not play on Friday night for the Suns when the team battles the Nuggets.

Nash is nursing a sprained ankle while O'Neal will sit as a preventative measure.

"His legs are a little beat up and we don?t want to run the guy into the ground in October," GM Steve Kerr said of O'Neal. "He?s done every drill and every scrimmage and he needs a break. We want to make sure he?s OK for the regular season, and that?s only two weeks away."