NBA - Pau Gasol honored to say goodbye Lakers

After 22 profides, Pau Gasol has hung his basketball boots on the nail. The Los Angeles Lakers will probably move his jersey number from traffic.

When Pau Gasol talked about Kobe Bryant, tears finished. I really wanted to be, he could be here, but that s impossible, said the Spaniard at his emotional farewell performance in Barcelona. After 22 professional years and two NBA titles on the side Bryants, who fatally crashed in the previous year, Gasol concludes the basketball.

Superstar Bryant was more than just a teammate for gasol. A teacher, a mentor, a friend. Life is not fair sometimes, said the 41-year-old, he taught me, as I am a better player, a better leader. I have always seen him as a big brother, says Gasol.

With the Los Angeles Lakers, they brought the title together 2009 and 2010. The city of L.a. would never have won these two championships without Pau. Everyone knows that, Bryant once said, If he stops, his jersey number comes under the hallway next to mine.

That s exactly what will happen. According to media reports, the Lakers plan to pull the 16 from traffic. Because Gasol was a great character of the league for a long time, and one of the most important Europeans, like Dirk Novitzki.

Gasol, one of the Golden Generation Spain, made it up where everything started. The Big Man , who also played in the NBA for the Memphis Grizzlies, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs and Milwaukee Bucks, had returned to his home club FC Barcelona in February.

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I am grateful that with Barca, the club, in which everything started, could win again the title in the league and play with the Olympic Games, he said. Gasol once became worldwide and three times European champion, which came twice Olympic Silver.