Marc Gasol, from an unforgettable 2019 to an uncertain 2020: role change and end of his millionaire contract

• NBA.Tatum buries the champions

On

,

was proclaimed

champion

in

with the

.

He flew to Canada and after several dances, chants and lots of beer, he became MVP of the team's celebrations.

The pivot rested for a few days and traveled to Spain to make his debut with the national team on August 9 in the preparation games for the

.

He flew with Sergio Scariolo's expedition to the Asian country and on

completed the summer double by winning the World Cup.

He repeated as MVP of the celebration on the way home, took a few days of vacation and packed bags back to Canada to start the Raptors preseason less than a month later.

From Toronto he embarked to Japan, where the NBA played a small

in which he debuted on

, and played his first official minutes of the 2019-2020 season on 22 of that month against the Pelicans.

Oakland, Toronto, Spain, China, Spain, Toronto, Japan and Toronto

.

A round the world without rest to lift two titles.

"How

?" Some Toronto media asked in October.

The answer, almost a year later, is summarized by the statistics of Spanish, who turned 35 in January.

This season Marc has accumulated

(44), the

(26), the

(42.7%) and the

(7.5), rebounds (6, 3) and caps (0.9) throughout his career.

Hamstring

left him in dry dock for too many weeks, and the break from confinement didn't help him regain his best form.

In some

, Marc has been the seventh player on the roster.

He has started all eleven Toronto games, including seven against Boston in the Conference semifinals, but his minutes

, he has only scored six points on average and has not been on the court during the important moments of the parties.

A totally different role from the weeks that made him NBA champion in 2019, when he added 24 minutes (including vital ones), nine points, six rebounds and almost four assists for the ring.

A regular performance, the result of the fatigue accumulated the previous summer, the physical problems of these months and a

.

Marc, over the years, has been able to extend his reach to the line of three, organize the team's attack from the paint and be key in defense, but without a state of form that touches 100%, he suffers.

In these circumstances and with the Raptors eliminated, now

await him

, which he arrives with the need to find a new contract.

Nobody is going to put on the table

a year that Toronto paid him, and more taking into account the economic losses generated by the pandemic, but he will have options, although their numbers force him to lower his financial expectations.

A circumstance that can help to show interest in him teams that will aspire to the ring and that cannot offer big contracts, like the

.

The

, although neither party discards, is complicated.

The Canadian franchise will renew

, which charges 9.3 million a year, and the money left by Marc and

(who also ends their contract of 21 'kilos' per year) is compensated by the execution of the renewal of

star of the team, which next year will earn 29 million.

"I will try to be as positive and constructive as I can with myself and I will continue working", he summarized, who is already waiting for offers.

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