No matter what angle you look at it from, that's not a pretty sight.

In yesterday's Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals, the Spurs beat the Suns 111-106 ... but all I could focus on was Steve Nash's bloody nose.

The world's supply of band-aids couldn't plug that thing up.

With blood spewing from a cut on his nose, Steve Nash could only watch from the bench while the San Antonio Spurs put away Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.

"There was nothing I could do," he said. "It was obviously frustrating, but it was really out of my hands."

Nash scored 31 but missed a crucial 45 seconds in the final minute because of the bloody nose, which was the result of a head-on collision with Tony Parker's "thick head" with 2:53 to play. The cut required six stitches after the game.

Even the Spurs players felt bad about Nash's bloody mess.

"You only see things like that in a boxing match," the Spurs' Robert Horry said, "where a guy cuts his nose and it won't stop bleeding. You feel bad for the guy because you want to have the best team out there at the end of the game, and he wasn't out there."

Something tells me Horry wasn't losing too much sleep over it though, after all his team did just beat the Suns.

No need for tears (but damn it was ugly).