Marc Gasol closes the circle: signing for the Los Angeles Lakers for the next two seasons

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On

, the

confirmed the hiring of

.

The Spanish power forward came from being an

with the

, but he did not finish getting victories in the

, his great goal.

That transfer changed the Catalan's career and the present of the Californian franchise, which with

as a great star and

as a luxury squire fought from the first moment for the ring.

He lost the first final, but won the next two to the glory of Pau, the first Spaniard to win a championship.

In exchange for the best Spanish player of the moment, the Lakers sent to Memphis Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, two first-round elections and the rights of a young European center: Marc Gasol, Pau's little brother, selected in the position

.

One more second-round player, another European who, perhaps, would never end up reaching the NBA.

It was not so.

Marc would not get to put on the Lakers jersey and would watch from the ACB league how his owner exchanged him for his brother, but the doors of the best league in the world would open wide for him in Memphis, where he would start a historic career that would make him

Twelve years

in which he has earned a reputation on the other side of the pond and in which, curious fate, his name had never sounded for the Lakers.

Yes for the

, yes for the

, yes for all the great teams of recent years.

Never for some Lakers who have sailed through the desert since the last years of their brother

in the franchise and who last season returned in style, as high as possible, to the Playoffs.

And maybe that's why, for that current champion's ring, for

, for the city of Los Angeles ... Marc Gasol, at

, about to turn 36 in January, among rumors that even suggested his

, after the small interest of the

, the attempt of the

and the illusion of the

for their return to Canada ... For all this and after all that:

, the top favorites for the title in the 2020-2021 season.

This was announced by Adrian Wojnarowski, a reliable journalist for 'ESPN'.

The figures have not yet been made public, but money was not the important thing for a Gasol who has already made many millions throughout his career, who was a free agent and who wanted a franchise that would allow him to fight for him again. championship.

And right now, in the NBA, the best options for that are the Lakers:

...

Marc's role

will not be that of a star, far from it.

Nor was he during his last months in Toronto.

From Gasol intelligence in the game, experience for the dressing room and, above all, talent will be expected during the important games of the next Playoffs.

For that he is signed.

His new coach,

, created the best defensive network in the NBA last season and will have Marc as a luxury companion.

In addition, the Catalan has improved during his last years the launch of three, another weapon.

The Gasol middleweight thus closes the circle that he himself started in the 2007 draft and that his brother was in charge of becoming a legend.

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