about ten years ago (although he believed they were more, that's what makes say official website), just one month before gold juniors world champions in Lisbon, participated as a moderator at a roundtable organized by a historic club de l'Hospitalet, Tecla Sala, attended by also big names like Andrés Jiménez , Joan Creus and Jesus May. And my hand on the table, as tall as a shy, I placed a young man, as tall as shy, who played for Barca and already I had heard but had not never seen before, or on the court or outside it. Pau Gasol was .
The topic that we would debate was stated thus: how is a basketball player. And we talked a lot about it, yes, I also did voices fully licensed, but the audience was comprised almost exclusively boys and girls from schools in the area, and virtually all the questions went to Pau, which was clearly the closest to them who were in the table.
Del Pau, sitting next to me was answering all the questions, including some of mine to cheer, remember above all two things: it was timidísimo, when he spoke it was with the eyes more or less than looking at soil, and repeated so insistent, stubborn, one of my sentence: "I just want to play in the NBA."
And we're not fooled. At that time, a boy of ours was going to the NBA, and to succeed, it was difficult to come into our schemes. Pau's insistence that afternoon, at least it seemed to me more a product of a childhood dream a real projection.
But they see it: a couple of years later blew up the draft, he went to Memphis, took place among the best in the world and began to carve the prestige he does now about a year and a half it took to Los Angeles , and Los Angeles this morning in Orlando. We all
a few hours viewing images and videos of the ring recently conquered by Pau, and surely many we go back to the images in these past years have left their great success with the selection, or the spectacular farewell ACB League, which unfortunately was seen and unseen. But I personally always keep the memory of that evening in l'Hospitalet, where a tall, shy boy expressed a dream that, with time and effort has been made of all reality. Pau
champion and is now almost everything. That's almost Eruropa. So nothing that I would rather see him be this summer in Poland.
( By the way, as you can see on the web I found the room key image of that afternoon. Here you have it)
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