The 10 more important moments in the career of Pau Gasol

Already it is official. Pau Gasol announced this Tuesday 5 October in press conference his official retreat of the professional basketball. After weeks of speculations, finally the historical player confirmed that it will hang the booties afterwards of a successful career and have achieved to close it with brooch of gold.

It returned to the FC Barcelona after a widespread absence by a delicate injury that suffered in the NBA. Gasol Went back to dress the Barcelona T-shirt afterwards of his go through the American basketball, did it to contest his last Olympic games with the combined of Spain. It achieved it, and today it sacks . Therefore, it is menester rememorar his successful career with 10 the moments more memorables of the same.

Generation of gold

A group of youngsters of 18 years turned into referent in the World-wide júnior of Lisbon. In spite of that a year before had won the gold in the European of Varna, the júnior of Carlos Sainz of Aja consecrated in the Portuguese tournament to the tumbar to EE UU in the final (94-87). A generation inigualable (Raúl López, Juan Carlos Navarro, Felipe Kings, Carlos Heads, Berni Rodríguez, Germán Gabriel...) In which Pau Gasol was not neither the pívot title.

Glass of Málaga

The Barça heaved the Glass of Rey (won in the final to the Real Madrid) in the city of the Costa del Sol, and the one of Sant Boi was the big protagonist that afternoon with 25 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assistances and 3 thefts for 39 of assessment. A MVP without debate. "From the times of Drazen Petrovic had not seen to dominate to anybody like him", confessed Sergio Scariolo, technician of the white team then.

Debut with Spain

Pau Gasol trained with the selection in the Eurobasket of 2001. Juan Carlos Navarro and Raúl López, mates of generation, had premièred a year before in the Games of Sydney, but Lolo Sainz, by then the seleccionador, opted for carrying to Johny Rogers in place of Pau. Spain conquered the medal of bronze in Istanbul with a big paper of the greater of the Gasol: 22 points in the defeat in semifinals in front of the Serbia of Bodiroga, Stojakovic... And 31 in front of Germany and Nowitzki in the final of consolación.

Tercero in the draft

Pau Gasol was the elected with the number 3 of the draft of the NBA by Atlanta Hawks on 27 June 2001. On 1 November of this year contested his first party in the North American League (4 points before the Pistons), but finish the season like the Rookie of the year (17,6 so many and 8,9 rebounds with 52% of tarpaulin in the shot).

Saitama 2006

Pau Gasol achieved his first big success with the Selection in Saitama, in the World-wide of 2006. Then, the pívot already had hanged two medals (a silver and a European bronze), but in that championship Spain went up for the first time to the highest. Gasol Was the MVP with 21,1 points (third maximum scorer in Japan) and 9,4 rebounds, but lost the final by an injury. To 1:36 of the end of the semifinals in front of Argentina, twisted the ankle when stepping to Oberto. It did not play the final, but Spain touched the sky in Saitama.

Final in front of U.S.

Gasol Had a successful career, conquering case everything; only they have remained him two pending accounts: the Euroliga and the olympic gold. EE UU Has been an authentic nightmare for Spain in the Games. In Athens 2004 and Tokyo 2020, the Selection fell in front of the USES Team in quarter-finals; in River 2016 was in semifinals and in Peking 2008 and London 2012, in the party by the gold. In the first of those two finals, the Selection was very near, but at the end 118-107 for the first of the two olympic silvers that has hanged this generation.

His first ring

You grieve year and half after his traspaso to Los Angeles Lakers, Pau Gasol attained the first of the two rings that conquered in the NBA with the Californian franchise. The season 2008-09 was very good for the one of Sant Boi, that promedió 18,6 points and 9,2 rebounds beside Kobe Bryant MVP. In June removed the espinita of the previous course in which the Lakers had lost the final of the NBA in front of the Celtics, and a year afterwards avenged of the ones of Boston to conquer in the seventh party his second ring.

A feat between brothers

A historical day. Two brothers, the Gasol, in the initial jump of the Party of the Stars on 15 February 2015. Before, only the brothers Go Arsdale had coincided in an All Star (1970 and 1971), but did not do it like headlines. Pau, that premièred in a Party of the Stars in 2006, contested his All Star Game number five (the sixth would arrive a year afterwards), after being the most voted second in the 'frontcourt' in the East.

A party for the history

In the Eurobasket of 2015 Pau Gasol hanged his third European gold (also won the Eurobasket of Poland in 2009 and Lithuania in 2011) and did it after playing his best party with Spain in semifinals in front of France. Gasol enmudeció To a pavilion with 27.000 fans with a titanic performance: it annotated 40 points in a party that decided in the extention and in which it also captured 11 rebounds for an assessment of 52 credits!

Farewell in front of U.S.