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Top 10 Facts about Pau Gasol

Pau Gasol Saez is a Spanish former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association NBA.

He was a six-time NBA all-star and a four-time all-NBA team selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team.

Gasol won two NBA championships, one at the Los Angeles Lakers back-to-back and he was the NBA rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies.

 He is regarded as one of the greatest power forwards of all time and is also considered one of the greatest European players of all time.

1. Gasol the amazing two NBA title player announces his retirement from basketball

Madrid Pau Gasol announced his retirement from basketball, The forty-one-year-old announced his farewell from international basketball

He ended a career that lasted more than two decades and earned him two NBA titles and a world championship gold with Spain’s national team.

Gasol had been with the Spanish club Barcelona since February. His career had stalled before that because of a stress fracture in his left foot that lingered and kept him from playing.

The retirement announcement was made at an event at an opera house in Barcelona attended by former teammates and family members.

Gasol recently won an election to represent athletes for the next seven years with the International Olympic Committee.

2. The famous retired player became eligible for the Hall of fame with 20,000 points

San Antonio Spurs forward Pau Gasol notched 13 points, seven boards, and one steal during the Utah Jazz.

In doing so he joined the elite club of NBA players to have totaled at least 20,000 points and 10,000 rebounds throughout their career per Elias Sports Bureau.

Every retired player who is eligible for the Hall of Fame and has achieved the 20,000-point or the 10,000-rebound benchmark has been inducted.

Gasol has achieved the benchmark alongside the legends Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan, and Kevin Garnet.

He spent the next seven years playing for the Lakers, winning two NBA Championships and racking up 7,610 points and 4,240 rebounds in Los Angeles.

He then moved on to the Chicago Bulls in the summer. In the two seasons he spent there, he totaled 2,633 points and 1,712 rebounds before departing.

3. The Amazing Spanish basketball player is planning to join Golden State Warriors

Pau Gasol might return to the NBA world, but it’s unfortunately not with the Lakers. Gasol is planning to join the Golden State Warriors.

The four-time NBA big man discussed the possibility on an episode of former NBA player JJ Redick’s podcast.

4. Pau astonishingly the ambassador of UNICEF trying to get the cure for AIDS in children

Playing in the NBA as a power center is a task assigned to the single-minded. Pau dropped out of med school after enrolling at the age of 18.

To be a topflight basketball professional is not for those who have added distractions on the side, certainly not interruptions like studying medicine.

Pau was named after the hospital in which he was born Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona, his visions of being a doctor were yet to be formed, and Pau turned his attention to music.

His parents thought he had musical fingers, so at the age of 13, he was tinkling out fingers that would hold, control, and pass a basketball with equal dexterity.

Pau is Spain’s ambassador to UNICEF specializing in Aids amongst children and he has visited Angola and South Africa to see the extent of the disease there.

Pau wants to one day find the cure for AIDS he visits hospitals regularly to enquire about various ailments that kids are treated for.

5. The famous Gasol has an estimated net worth of $120 million and a salary of $225million

Gasol struggled through the past two years with injuries as the Los Angeles Lakers piled up losses on the court.

The Spaniard is the only non-American to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award. Pau Gasol is a retired professional basketball player from Spain who has a net worth of $120 million.

During his NBA career, Pau Gasol earned $225 million in salary alone. At the peak of his career, Pau earned $19 million per season from the Lakers.

6. Catherine McDonell beautiful wife to Pau married twice in San Francisco and Spain

NBA star Pau Gasol was so in love with the beautiful Catherine McDonell, that he decided to marry her twice.

The basketball player tied the knot for the first time with his new wife in San Francisco in a beautiful wedding ceremony.

The second marriage was more intimate and celebratory, Pau chose the stunning Ampurdan area in the Northeastern region of Spain.

Catherine wore a beautiful lace dress designed by Spanish brand Pronovias, while Pau chose a handsome dark blue ensemble by designer Hugo Boss.

7. Gasol Foundation helps to promote healthy living habits to prevent child obesity

Along with his brother Marc, he established the Gasol Foundation to help to promote community health and healthy living habits, especially by preventing and fighting childhood obesity.

After being named Global Impact Player by the National Basketball Player Association NBPA he created a t-shirt to help the foundation work.

He moved the foundation headquarters from Barcelona to Santa Boi where he was born, his brother and him have received a special recognition prize from Estrategia Naos.

8. Marc Gasol famously the young brother Pau Gasol is a two-time NBA team member

Marc Gasol Sáez is a Spanish professional basketball player for Bàsquet Girona of the LEB Oro.

The center is a two-time NBA Team member and a three-time NBA All-Star. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year with the Memphis Grizzlies.

Younger brother to Pau Gasol he has won an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors, He has won two Olympic silver medals and two FIBA Basketball World Cup titles.

9. Pau interestingly is the first player to participate in the executive committee NCAA

Pau was vice president of the NBPA National Basketball Players Association, of the NBA. he was named a UNICEF ambassador since then and has repeatedly taken part in different campaigns.

Gasol has been a member of the Advisory Council of Spanish Sport CADE, which is part of the Association of Spanish Sport ADESP.

He was the first player to participate in the Executive Committee of this association without previously having been in the NCAA.

10. The remarkable seven feet Gasol is a skilled passer and above-average shot blocker

Gasol 7 feet was athletic for his size, allowing him to play both the power forward and center positions, much like fellow European players Toni Kukoc and Dirk Nowitzki.

Gasol used a variety of midrange jumpers, hook shots, up-and-under moves, and shot fakes to score very efficiently.  

He was also a skilled passer for a big man defensively, he is an above-average shot blocker with a career average of 1.7 blocks per game.

In addition, his foot speed relative to his size allowed him to run the fast break and finish effectively.

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