Pau Gasol

Pau Gasol (7'1" 2.14 m, born July 6, 1980 in Barcelona, Spain) is a famous Spanish basketball player. He is a native of Sant Boi, Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. The son of a medical doctor, Gasol played in Spanish ACB League for FC Barcelona, where he had an average of 11.3 points per game. He now plays in the NBA for the Memphis Grizzlies, where he won the NBA Rookie of the Year award in 2002.

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Gasol is averaging over 18 points a game with the Grizzlies and has often been compared with fellow European players Toni Kukoc and Dirk Nowitzki.

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He plays for Spain's national basketball team, and is already considered by many fans in his home country to be the best basketball player ever from his country. Remarkably, though, he maintains that his top goal in life is to follow in his family's footsteps and become a medical doctor in the future, too.

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He has a younger brother, Marc, who's also a basketball player currently playing for FC Barcelona.

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