Pau Gasol Sáez (; born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish professional basketball player. He last played for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Gasol is a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA team selection. He has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers back-to-back in 2009 and 2010. Internationally, Gasol has won a FIBA World Cup title, three EuroBasket titles, two Olympic silver medals, and an Olympic bronze medal with the Spanish national basketball team.
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Pau Gasol Sáez (; born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish professional basketball player. He last played for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Gasol was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies. He is a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA team selection. He has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers back-to-back in 2009 and 2010. Internationally, Gasol has won a FIBA World Cup title, three EuroBasket titles, two Olympic silver medals, and an Olympic bronze medal with the Spanish national basketball team. He currently holds the Grizzlies’ franchise record for free throws made and attempted. He also shares the record for most EuroBaskets MVP awards, with two each. He scored his 3,000th point on October 31, 2003, against the Boston Celtics. He grabbed the 1,500th rebound of his career on November 12, 2003. He became the 10th player to reach 5,000 points and 500 blocks in his career, becoming the fastest player to do so since 1973–74. He was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the third overall pick in the first round of the 2001 NBA draft, but his rights were traded to the Memphis Grizzles. He played for Barcelona from 1999 to 2004. Gasor is the older brother of fellow NBA player Marc Gasol. His father, Agusti, stood 6 feet 3 inches, and his mother, Marisa, was 6-feet 1 inch.
Gasol began playing basketball as a center with his school team, Llor, and he eventually signed with Cornellà. He made his debut on January 17, 1999 with the senior team of Barcelona and played just 25 total minutes in the Spanish ACB League’s 1998–99 season, and averaged 13. 7 minutes per game in the ACB the next year. He averaged 12. 4 points and 5. 8 rebounds in 24.7 min minutes per game. He won the FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship in 1998, and was named Most Valuable Player of the Spanish National Cup finals championship game in 2001. He led the team in scoring in his second year with the Grizzlies, and for the second year in a row, played in all 82 games. In his fifth year with Memphis, he became the all-time leading rebounder in the franchise’s history when he grabbed his 2,072nd rebound against the New York Knicks on March 24, 2007. He helped his team make it to the playoffs for the two second time in his Career, but they were eliminated in first round and did not win a single game against San Antonio Spurs. Despite having 22 points in Game 4 against the San Antonio. Spurs, the highest by a Memphis players in the playoffs, his team was eliminated in thefirst round, not winning a singleGame 4 againstSan Antonio. This was both the Grizzlies and Gasol’s first trip to the NBA playoffs.
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