Pau Gasol
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| Position | Power Forward/Center |
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| Height | 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) |
| Weight | 260 lb (118 kg) |
| Team | Memphis Grizzlies |
| Nationality | Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain |
| Born | July 6 1980 Barcelona, Spain |
| Draft | 3rd overall, 2001 Atlanta Hawks |
| Pro career | 1999–present |
| Former teams | FC Barcelona (1999-2001) |
| Awards | 2001 ACB League MVP 2002 NBA Rookie of the Year 2006 FIBA World Championship MVP |
| Olympic medal record | |||
| Competitor for Image:Flag of Spain.svg Spain | |||
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| Men's Basketball | |||
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2006 Japan | Spain | |
| European Championships | |||
| Bronze | 2001 Turkey | Spain | |
| Silver | 2003 Sweden | Spain | |
| Silver | 2007 Spain | Spain | |
Pau Gasol Sáez (born July 6 1980, in Barcelona, Spain) is a 2.13 m (7'0") Spanish[1] basketball player. Gasol played in the Spanish ACB League for FC Barcelona, where he had an average of 11.3 points per game. He now plays in the National Basketball Association for the Memphis Grizzlies, with whom he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 2002.
Selected third overall in the 2001 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks,[2] his draft rights were traded to the Vancouver Grizzlies[3] (prior to the team's relocation to Memphis) in exchange for Shareef Abdur-Rahim. Gasol also plays for Spain's national basketball team, and is already considered by many fans to be the best Spanish basketball player ever. He maintains that his top goal in life is to follow in his family's footsteps and become a medical doctor in the future.
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[edit] Player profile
Gasol has often been compared with fellow European players Toni Kukoč and Dirk Nowitzki. Gasol is a very gifted low-post scorer who regularly scores 20 points a night. He sports a nice hook shot, can score outside and inside, and also is near-ambidextrous. He can reasonably hit his free throws, averaging at about 72.0%. He has also averaged 1.8 blocks and 8.6 rebounds per game in his career.
In 2000-01, Pau established himself as one of the finest players in Europe, averaging 11.3 points and 5.2 rebounds in just under 24 minutes per game.
On February 9, 2006, for the first time in his career, Gasol was selected to play in the 2006 NBA All-Star Game in Houston as a reserve center for the Western Conference.
He was the first Spanish basketball player as well as the first Grizzlies player to ever make it to the All-Star Game. Pau holds the Grizzlies franchise record for most points scored in a single game, with 44 on February 27, 2006, against the Washington Wizards.
Gasol missed the first 19 games of the 2006-07 NBA season due to a broken foot suffered near the end of Spain's semifinal win over Argentina in the 2006 FIBA World Championship. He would go on to be named Most Valuable Player of the tournament, which Spain won.
He is involved with a lot of community work organized through the Memphis Grizzlies.
On January 24, 2007, Gasol recorded his second career triple-double against the hosting Utah Jazz, garnering 17 points, 13 rebounds, and 12 assists. He also registered 2 blocks and 1 steal. [4]
[edit] Other titles
[edit] Spanish national team
- Gold medal in 2006 FIBA World Championship
- Most Valuable player in the 2006 FIBA World Championship
- Silver medal in the 2003 European Championship
- Silver medal in the 2007 European Championship
- Bronze medal in 2001 European Championship
- 5th place in the 2002 FIBA World Championship
- 5th place in Olympic games -Diploma- (Athens 2004)
- Junior World Champion with Spain (1999)
- Junior European Champion with Spain (1998)
[edit] FC Barcelona
- ACB League Champion (2001)
- Spanish Copa del Rey Champion (2001)
- Most Valuable Player in ACB league (2001)
- Most Valuable Player in Copa del Rey (2001)
[edit] Personal
His mother Marisa is a medical doctor, and his father Augustí is a nurse. When Pau was born, they were living in Cornellà, a community in Barcelona province, Catalonia a region of Spain, but Pau was born in Sant Pau Hospital, where both of his parents worked, in the city of Barcelona. When he was six years old, his family moved to another Barcelona suburb, Sant Boi de Llobregat, where he spent the remainder of his childhood.[5] His younger brother, Marc, at 7'1" and 265 lb is also a professional basketball player who was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers 48th overall in the 2007 NBA Draft.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Official site (Spanish) (Catalan) (English)
- NBA.com Profile
- Pau Gasol Player Profile (InterBasket)
- Pau Gasol video in Herois
- Pau Gasol story on Hoopsworld.com
- Pau Gasol Player Profile (ACB)
- (Spanish) Pau Gasol
| Preceded by Mike Miller | NBA Rookie of the Year 2002 | Succeeded by Amare Stoudemire |
| Preceded by Dirk Nowitzki | FIBA World Championship MVP 2006 | Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Image:Flag of Spain.svg | Spain squad - 2002 FIBA World Championship - Fifth Place | Image:Flag of Spain.svg |
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4 Gasol | 5 Junyent | 6 Marco | 7 Navarro | 8 Rodríguez | 9 Felipe Reyes | 10 Jiménez | 11 Angulo | 12 Paraíso | 13 Calderón | 14 Alfonso Reyes | 15 Garbajosa | Coach: Imbroda | ||
| Image:Flag of Spain.svg | Spain squad - 2006 FIBA World Championship Champions - Gold medal | Image:Flag of Spain.svg |
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4 Pau Gasol | 5 Rudy | 6 Cabezas | 7 Navarro | 8 Calderón | 9 Reyes | 10 Jiménez | 11 Rodríguez | 12 Berni | 13 Marc Gasol | 14 Mumbrú | 15 Garbajosa | Coach: Pepu Hernández | ||
EA Sports NBA Live Cover Athletes |
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'95: 1994 NBA Finals action shot • '96: Shaquille O'Neal • '97: Mitch Richmond • '98: Tim Hardaway • '99: Antoine Walker • '00: Tim Duncan • '01: Kevin Garnett • '02: Steve Francis • '03: Jason Kidd • '04: Vince Carter • '05: Carmelo Anthony • '06: Dwyane Wade, Yuta Tabuse (Japanese cover) • '07: Tracy McGrady, Pau Gasol (Spanish cover), Boris Diaw & Tony Parker (French cover), Dirk Nowitzki (German cover) • '08: Gilbert Arenas |
2001 NBA Draft |
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| First Round Kwame Brown • Tyson Chandler • Pau Gasol • Eddy Curry • Jason Richardson • Shane Battier • Eddie Griffin • DeSagana Diop • Rodney White • Joe Johnson • Kedrick Brown • Vladimir Radmanović • Richard Jefferson • Troy Murphy • Steven Hunter • Kirk Haston • Michael Bradley • Jason Collins • Zach Randolph • Brendan Haywood • Joseph Forte • Jeryl Sasser • Brandon Armstrong • Raül López • Gerald Wallace • Samuel Dalembert • Jamaal Tinsley • Tony Parker |
| Second Round Trenton Hassell • Gilbert Arenas • Omar Cook • Will Solomon • Terence Morris • Brian Scalabrine • Jeff Trepagnier • Damone Brown • Mehmet Okur • Michael Wright • Earl Watson • Jamison Brewer • Bobby Simmons • Eric Chenowith • Kyle Hill • Sean Lampley • Loren Woods • Ousmane Cisse • Antonis Fotsis • Ken Johnson • Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje • Alton Ford • Andre Hutson • Jarron Collins • Kenny Satterfield • Maurice Jeffers • Robertas Javtokas • Alvin Jones • Bryan Bracey |
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Categories: 1980 births | Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics | Catalan basketball players | ACB league players | FC Barcelona basketball players | Living people | Memphis Grizzlies players | People from Barcelona | Olympic basketball players of Spain | Spanish basketball players | Power forwards (basketball) | Centers (basketball)
