• Pau Gasol The imminent end of the mystery

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Such is the mismanagement in Barcelona that it had to be Toni Freixa, one of the candidates for the Barça presidency, who raised the hare.

Pau Gasol, probably the best Spanish player of all time and double NBA champion with the Lakers, will once again wear the Barça colors.

He will do it at least until the end of the season.

Time that the 40-year-old center considers enough to prepare for his participation in Tokyo, in what would be the fifth Olympic Games of his career.

Operated twice for a navicular stress fracture in his left foot, the last time Pau Gasol played a game was on March 3, 2019 with the Milwaukee Bucks.

I mean, two years ago.

A free agent in the NBA, he saw his options to return to top competition in the United States become increasingly complicated, so he never ruled out a return to Europe.

It was Gasol who gave Barcelona all the economic facilities in the world to return to play at the Palau.

In fact, the Barça club is still directed by that Management Commission chaired by Carles Tusquets, limited, according to the statutes, "to the necessary and essential acts for the maintenance of the normal activities of the club and the protection of its interests."

The Manager, in fact, could not sign Manchester City center-back Eric García for the first football team after the candidates for the armchair (Joan Laporta, Víctor Font and Toni Freixa) did not agree.

Pau Gasol, in any case, will not be able to play this Euroleague, as the period for incorporation of players for this second stage of competition has already closed.

Neither is the Copa del Rey, whose title Barcelona won a week ago after beating Real Madrid.

So Gasol's participation will be limited to the Endesa League, where the Catalans are second in the standings after two victories for Pablo Laso's team.

Sarunas Jasikevicius, Pau Gasol's former teammate at Barcelona in the 2000-01 season, was basing his success as a coach at the Palau on group power over individualities.

The Lithuanian will now have to make room for a legendary basketball player in his dressing room.

With all that this implies.

Pau Gasol thus joins one of the most powerful squads in the history of Barcelona, ​​along with Niko Mirotic, Cory Higgins, Nick Calathes and Brandon Davies.

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