QMaybe in Spain what happened to him is more popular and gimmicky. Pau Gasol on March 7, when the Lakers raised to the sky the Crypto.com Arena (his pavilion), the shirt with the ’16’ to leave it there along with the rest of the legends of the franchise (along with the Celtics) with the most history (and championships, 17) in the NBA. Who has not put on a Pau shirt to play? Who has not dreamed of seeing it together with the other myths, Magic, Jabbar, Kobe, Shaq, Jerry West? However, in the United States, what is really important and profound, what gives meaning to a player’s professional career, is what will happen to the Catalan this afternoon (Eastern time), when he enters the Basketball Hall of Fameclass of 2023.
there is nothing higher
In these days in which the selection celebrates the Centennial Trophy in Malaga with a high-flying tournament, which lives days of wine and roses with Spain at number 1 in the ranking, one of its great banners goes one step further in its fantastic history. He was a two-time NBA champion.He was rookie of the year, played six times in the All-Star Game, saw his jersey removed and now it’s his turn to reach a little higher, to the roof of American basketball. Because in the United States he will always be remembered as “Pau Gasol, Hall of Fame member”. There is no more honorable business card.
Gasol arrives this afternoon in the heart of America (8:00 p.m. Springfield time, Massachusetts, a two-hour drive from Boston), at the peak of his career. He does it in the blessed place where a teacher, James Naismith, He took to inventing basketball with a rudimentary fruit basket.
Honor to the ‘fathers’ of Anteto, Doncic, Jokic
The harvest of the 23rd is extraordinary. The companies are always good when it comes to Pau. Popovich, Tony Parker, Dwyane Wade, Dirk Nowitzki, Becky Hammon, among others, they also enter the Hall of Fame at dawn in Spain. And it is not by chance that Parker (French), Nowitzki (German) and Gasol (Spanish)three referents of European basketball in the 21st century, enter the same promotion.
Amaya inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame
“The recognition of a lifetime”. This is how Amaya Valdemoro, a Spanish basketball legend for her extraordinary career, defined her entry into the FIBA Hall of Fame, which will take place on August 23 in Manila, two days before the start of the men’s World Cup. Madrid is the first Spanish player to achieve it.
He hall of fame wanted to pay tribute to three basketball legends from the Old Continent, so influential now, that they ended up opening the door of the NBA to other European players. Parker said so. “It’s crazy. And to have three Europeans as well, it’s pretty special. Because at the time, if you put it in perspective, there weren’t many Europeans, and people didn’t believe that a European guy could be a franchise player. And after the three of us, now you see it all the time, with Jokic, Antetokounmpo and Doncic“.
Ours is crazy. At that time, if you put it in perspective, there weren’t many Europeans, and people didn’t believe that a European guy could be a franchise player.
Diaz Miguel and Ferrandiz
Pau, the first to do so many things, will also become the only Spanish player in history to be in the Hall of Fame. Before, the coaches Antonio Díaz Miguel (1997) and Pedro Ferrándiz (2007), achieved such a feat. Being introduced at the ceremony by Toni Kukoc and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It has already been put Red jacket which accredits him as a member of the Hall of Fame. She was given by her parents Augustine and Marisa.
I would like to be remembered as a player who always did the right things.”
“In Barcelona 92, like other children of my generation, I began to dream of the NBA thanks to the Dream Team. I would like to be remembered as a player who played the right way, played hard, competed, played to win. A player who made the right decisions on the court and tried to make his teammates better”, commented the Catalan, who celebrated the rise of the international player in the NBA. “This sport has grown a lot since we started playing. I think we can be very proud to have taken international basketball to a higher level.. It is very special to share this moment with Dirk and Tony because it is extraordinary. And it is something that was unthinkable not so long ago,” he said.
