Pau Gasol reached 1000 NBA regular games last night

[TaLvsCuaL]

18.3pts, 9.4rbs, 3.2asts, 1.7blks per game

15 seasons, 18253pts, 9428rbs, 3230asts, 1663blks

539 victories, 460 defeats

FC Barcelona:

Spanish King's Cup champion (2001)
Most Valuable Player of the Spanish King's Cup (2001)
Spanish League champion (1999, 2001)
Spanish League Finals MVP (2001)
All-Euroleague Second Team (2001)

NBA:

2

[ArbitraryWater]

"best spaniard athlete ever".. in the NBA right? Hell yes.

[TaLvsCuaL]

"best spaniard athlete ever".. in the NBA right? Hell yes.

Arguably only behind Rafa Nadal

[Fallen Angel]

Hall of Fame lock

[ArbitraryWater]

Arguably only behind Rafa Nadal

If you're talking Athletes overall, I'm pretty sure there are dozens of athletes outside of Rafa with much bigger and more impressive legacies than Gasol, tbh.

But he's still top 50-60 range (basketball)

[TaLvsCuaL]

If you're talking Athletes overall, I'm pretty sure there are dozens of athletes outside of Rafa with much bigger and more impressive legacies than Gasol, tbh.

But he's still top 50-60 range (basketball)

I don't want to argue with you about that, It is not the purpose of the thread. But take in account Spain was under a terrible dictatorship during 40 years and we were terrible at sports until recently due the lack of infrastructure, good managers, coachs, money, etc.

[ISHGoat]

His impact is underrated by casual fans. He truly played the game the correct way and although his impact may be slightly less than that of a Duncan or Dirk, to me he still belongs in that category of "best bigs of this era" when you take into accounts his intangibles

[stalkerforlife]

Kobe catapulted him, that's for sure.

Pau was a damn fine player, but he needed to live vicariously through Kobe's thickness to win.

Top 100 NBA player of ALL TIME.

[references]

kobe owes both of those rings to this man

[Gambitero]

kobe owes both of those rings to this man

+1000

Not to mention Pau could have get the Finals MVP against Celtics over Kobe, as many other people think he was so clutch carrying that game at some points.

HoF

[winwin]

Pau

[Locked_Up_Tonight]

Pau and Dirk had this conversation today via twitter

Pau Gasol ‏@paugasol 10h10 hours ago
in any regular season game. You can be as creative as you like… There’s a prize for the best video! Use #Pau1000
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Dirk Nowitzki ‏@swish41 10h10 hours ago
@paugasol https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-6wqZZ1DZs … #pau1000 congrats
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Pau Gasol ‏@paugasol 9h9 hours ago
@swish41 there have been a few of those too! �� Thanks for sharing mate! ������
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Dirk Nowitzki ‏@swish41 6h6 hours ago
@paugasol Hahaha. My bad amigo. Let me know what prize I won..

Dirk being a smart@ss in his older age....