Some of the very best basketball players ever Came from Europe. Players such as Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jokic, Dirk Nowitzki, Aryydas Sabonis and Victor Wembanyama all started their professional basketball career in Europe. And yet, if you ask Jusuf Nurkic who he believes is the best, his choice would be Pau Gasol.
While talking to Just British ballersNurkic revealed that he would take Pau Gasol over every European big man, including antetokounmpo, Nowitzki, Jokic, Sabonis, Wembanyama, Domantas Sabonis, Toni Kukoc, Vlade Divac and Pau’s brother, Marc Gasol. In the middle of his interview, he said, “You see, you are going to put me in trouble.”
(Fun fact: Nurkic and Gasol were set to teammates in Portland for the 2019-2020 season before the Foot Operation of Gasol is Nixte)
Now, before everyone thinks he is strictly talking about the NBA, Gasol was also very reached abroad, after he won 11 medals in Fiba, the Olympic Games and Eurobasket. Combine that with two NBA titles, and it is clear that Gasol is perhaps the most successful European great man in history. Even if some of the names had better NBA nalaties, they were not as accomplished abroad as Gasol.
That does not mean that he was generally better if basketball players than some of those other players, but people don’t have to sneeze how he relates to them. It is impossible to deny how good gas was when he was at the top of his game, and the jazz is one of the teams that know better than anyone else.
Gasol was an established jazz enemy from 2008 to 2010
Each Jazz fan remembers its rivalry with the Los Angeles Lakers from 2008 to 2010, in which the two teams were confronted in the play -offs at that time at that time. Although Kobe Bryant may have been the radiant star in that series because he is Kobe, Gasol has certainly caused his honest part of the damage when the Lakers eliminated the jazz all three years.
Every year he was consistent in a thorn in the side of jazz.
-Gasol’s figures vs. Utah in 2008: 18.5 points, 8.3 rebounds, 4.2 assists and three blocks a competition while he shoots 56% out of the field.
-I in 2009: 18.4 points, nine rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.6 blocks a game while he shoots 58.6% out of the field.
-In 2010: 23.5 points, 14.5 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.8 blocks a game while he shoots 60.7% out of the field.
Gasol was perhaps not the alpha dog of the Lakers, but he flourished in his second-in-command role next to Kobe. He was definitely a jazz enemy.
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