Pau Gasol

Pau Gasol Sez is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association . He is a sixtime NBA AllStar, and a fourtime AllNBA selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team. He has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, one of only two nonAmerican NBA players to win that award. He is the older brother of fellow NBA player Marc Gasol.

Pau Gasol was born in Barcelona. He began playing basketball as a center with his school team, Alvirne, and he eventually signed with Cornell. When he was sixteen, he began playing for Barcelonas junior team. He also won both the 1998 Albert Schweitzer Tournament and the 1998 FIBA Europe Under18 Championship. After moving to the senior team of Barcelona, Gasol played justtotal minutes in the Spanish ACB League 199899160season, and averaged 13.7160minutes per game in the ACB the next year. However, in his final season in the ACB, Gasol averaged 12.4160points and 5.8160rebounds in 24.7160minutes per game. Barcelona was victorious in the Spanish National Cup championship game in 2001, and Gasol was named Most Valuable Player. After entering the NBA draft, Gasol was selected third overall in the first round in the 2001 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks, who traded his draft rights to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Shareef AbdurRahim.

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