Pau Gasol

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This week we got Spain’s finest, the NBA Hall of Famer and 2x champ Pau Gasol on Knuckleheads. Pau looks back on his journey from growing up in Barcelona, to becoming the highest drafted international player at the time. Pau describes transitioning to Memphis, helping the Grizzlies lay their foundation, and what it was like to get traded for his brother and go to the Lakers. We get Kobe stories and look back on those Lakers championship runs. Tune in! Playing for the Spanish national team for the first time (11:41) Getting drafted by the Grizzlies, his rookie year (18:57) Getting traded for Marc Gasol and joining Kobe on the Lakers (35:07) ‘08-’09 season, winning the NBA Finals over Orlando (49:26) 2010 Finals, Celtics-Lakers rivalry (52:58) Phil Jackson and the triangle (58:49) Pau’s thoughts on Luka Doncic joining the Lakers (1:08:17) About Our Hosts: NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls. Other places to find Knuckleheads: Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Instagram Follow on Facebook

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0:00.0	First, man, we appreciate you coming on the show.
0:04.2	Big fan of your game.
0:06.0	Versatile jump hook, left, right, you know.
0:09.1	Hate us seeing all that.
0:10.7	But I appreciate you coming on the show rocking with us, bro.
0:13.0	Thank you, D.
0:13.6	Appreciate you.
0:14.4	Having the opportunity to chat with you guys and having me over.
0:17.0	When you first got to the league, who was the first person to bust your ass?
0:20.5	Oh, shit.
0:22.5	It was, I'm sure, many in different ones.
0:26.5	But I guess the first few games, even during preseason, I got to play against the Lakers.
0:33.2	You know, they just became champions.
0:35.7	And Shaq was just an absolute force.
0:40.4	Fours.
0:41.0	I'm like, I'm not going to guard this dude.
0:44.0	You know, no one really could, really.
0:45.6	I mean, at that time, teams had like two or three guys, just big bodies just to foul them on their rosters.
0:52.7	And then I remember also a couple, first couple games.
0:55.3	It was, I played against Detroit.
0:57.2	I think that was my first official regular season.
0:59.9	They had Cliff Robinson.
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