Pau Gasol

Anthony Davis has 30 points and 22 rebounds as Lakers defeat Memphis and move to the No. 9 spot in the Western Conference.

No. Mayer needed 6 hours, 42 minutes to beat Souza, which is also longer than the record for a clay-court match on the ATP tour. John’s, Seton Hall and Villanova, allowing them to separate from the football schools and create their own conference on July 1. 2010 — The top-ranked Connecticut Huskies set an NCAA women’s record by winning their 71st straight game, a 59-44 victory over No. Ertz, who gave birth to a son in August, is not under contract with Angel City and might never play for the team. “So I’m kind of just trying to create a more efficient swing.” is the Pac-12 player of the year](https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/story/2023-03-07/ucla-jaime-jaquez-jr-is-pac-12-player-of-the-year) [Is the Pac-12 really this bad? The possible season-ending loss of the team’s defensive maestro, Clark, a.k.a. The present? Fittingly, it’ll live directly on the right of Kobe Bryant’s No. And Tuesday, after helping the Lakers win a pair of championships, the curtain dropped on Pau Gasol’s No. Below that an to the left is Shaquille O’Neal’s No.

Vanessa Bryant participated in the tribute to Pau Gasol and sent him a touching message. In it, she revealed that Kobe Bryant predicted that the Spaniard's ...

I'm looking forward to the day when he gets that tribute and gives the speech in the middle of the court in front of all the fans that have supported him. When Pau retires he will have his number at the top of the pavilion," Kobe said in a video. Pau, Kobe predicted that you and he would be together at the top of the arena.

The number 16 shirt with which the Spanish player won two NBA titles at the Los Angeles Lakers was ceremoniously retired on Tuesday.

In the end, life and sport put you to the test and condition you with adverse moments. He contributed spinal surgeries at children’s hospitals in every city he played for, visited refugees in Iraq and Syria and vowed to donate $1,000 for every point he scored to help typhoon victims in the Philippines. On Monday, he told the children about the first injury that left a mark on his memory. You want to live up to it and you think that maybe, at some point, it would be nice if your name was there, but you don’t let it go to your head,” says Gasol, who was inspired to reach the NBA after watching the US Dream Team that played in Barcelona, his hometown, at the 1992 Olympics. On Monday, Gasol stated that one of his greatest legacies was reversing the notion that European players are technically stylish but are soft on the court compared to Americans. He had come to LA in February 2008 from Memphis, a team that had posted 20 wins for the season. I got to work to win the following season, the 2008-09 season. I’m very proud,” declares the center, who in turn is following in the trailblazing footsteps of others like Drazen Petrovic, Vlade Divac, Peja Stojakovic and, more recently, Dirk Nowitzki, who arrived in American basketball two years before Pau. The jersey retirement took place at halftime during a game between the Lakers and the Grizzlies. The next day, March 7, Gasol joined the gods of the American professional league after he became the 12th Laker to have his jersey retired. Not even as a boy – the son of two doctors, Agustí and Marisa, who used to play on a court near the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona when he was the same age as the kids who now gawp up at him – did he ever dream that he would reach one of the most prominent teams in the NBA, where he played in three NBA finals and won two consecutive championships, in 2009 and 2010. The franchise transferred Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton and Aaron McKie (in addition to the rights to his brother, Marc) to the Grizzlies, in order to get Pau, a center who was the first non-American to win the rookie of the year award, in 2002.

The former Lakers great had his No. 16 jersey retired alongside his late teammate and friend's No. 24.

Paul Gasol was emotional as his No. 16 jersey was retired by the Lakers in a ceremony Tuesday night, one where Gasol talked of his friend Kobe.

Tuesday’s win snapping the Knicks’ nine-game winning streak was one of the team’s best wins, especially without [LaMelo Ball](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/57521/lamelo-ball) (out for the season). [Zach LaVine](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/30050/zach-lavine) has been putting up numbers of late, but the defense that was impressive earlier in the league has slipped and is bottom 10 in the league over the last five games. [Zion Williamson](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/50955/zion-williamson) will be out at least a couple more weeks, the team announced, and that may be optimistic. And even with all of them, it was [Daniel Gafford](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/51076/daniel-gafford) who got free for the game-winner against the Pistons, a put-back at the buzzer. The Lakers have gone 3-2 since [LeBron James](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/28859/lebron-james) went out with a foot injury — thanks in large part to [Anthony Davis](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29801/anthony-davis) getting back to his All-NBA form from earlier in the season — and that combined with the slides of New Orleans and Utah has the Lakers up to ninth in the West and in the play-in. [Kristaps Porzingis](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/30160/kristaps-porzingis) is another guy on the roster who can get hot and win the Wizards one game. The Clippers snapped their five-game losing streak since the arrival of [Russell Westbrook](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29376/russell-westbrook) and him starting at point guard — but it took big games and a late push from [Kawhi Leonard](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29695/kawhi-leonard) and [Paul George](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29583/paul-george) to beat the shorthanded and stunned Grizzlies team. [Max Strus](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/56107/max-strus) was knocking down 3s and playing well as a starter with [Kevin Love](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29377/kevin-love) out, does he keep the job? Minnesota is 4-5 since the arrival of [Mike Conley](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29279/mike-conley) and will try to add to that with games against the Hawks and Nets (two teams fighting for playoff positioning themselves) this week. Still, there are rotation questions to answer: [Kyle Lowry](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29203/kyle-lowry) is nearing a return, should he start or should the steady [Gabe Vincent](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/57800/gabe-vincent) keep the job? Erik Spoelstra has gone to staggering some of the minutes of [Bam Adebayo](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/30440/bam-adebayo) and [Jimmy Butler](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/29711/jimmy-butler), needing to keep one of them on the floor to keep the team from cratering for stretches during a game. Losing [Brandon Clarke](https://www.nbcsportsedge.com/basketball/nba/player/50972/brandon-clarke) for the rest of the season and the playoffs to a torn Achilles is another big blow, he is a key part of their rotation.

Jimmy Butler surprised former Chicago Bulls teammate Pau Gasol at his Los Angeles Lakers jersey retirement ceremony on Tuesday.

However, despite the bittersweet moment of seeing his number retired beside Kobe's no. 8 and 24, Gasol is proud and honored to receive this recognition for ...

[message](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/message), especially since Bryant has been a significant topic of discussion leading up to the [event](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/event). However, despite the bittersweet moment of seeing his number retired beside Kobe’s no. Kobe Bryant’s legacy lives on as he delivered a heartwarming pre-recorded message during the Los Angeles Lakers’ jersey retirement ceremony for his dear friend and former teammate Pau Gasol.

Pau Gasol certainly was impactful — he was critical to the Lakers championships in 2009 and 2010 — and he is nominated for the Hall's class of 2023 and is a ...

Pau Gasol honored Kobe Bryant repeatedly on Tuesday night as his jersey went up at Crypto.com Arena.