President/player of Girona, Marc Gasol wondered last summer about the rest of his career. At 39 years old, Pau's little brother remained effective, and after helping his club climb to the first division of the Spanish championship, he was still averaging 10.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists in 24 minutes per year. pass.
Enough to push him to give himself a few months of reflection before hanging up his sneakers…
“What is certain is that I will not start the season. It costs me a lot more than I expected when I made the decision to play for Girona. It's a more complicated exercise in introspection than I anticipated.” he assured thus. “I think the smartest thing to do at the moment is not to start the season, not to start at Basquet Girona… and then we will see. Another player will arrive, an inside player. With this player, we consider that the squad is complete.”
Finally, Marc Gasol will not join his players during the campaign since he has just announced, during a press conference in Barcelona, that he is ending his professional career.
“The time has come to give back everything that I have been taught” he explained in particular to the press.
The interior leaves with a well-filled trophy cabinet, with a Spanish championship title (2004), an NBA title (2019), three participations in the All-Star Game (2012, 2015 and 2017), a trophy for best defender of the year in the NBA (2013) and two places in the All-NBA Teams, the first in 2015 and the second in 2013.
With Spain, he won two World Cups (2006 and 2019), two European Championships (2009, 2011), but also two Olympic silver medals (2008 and 2012).
