Pau
Laker Film Room - Dedicated to the Study of Lakers Basketball
Pete Zayas
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
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Summary
Pau Gasol announced that he is retiring from professional basketball, sparking an outpouring of love and sharing of memories from Lakers fans from around the world. Pete, Mike, and Darius join the chorus of those celebrating Pau by reminiscing about his NBA career, particularly his time with the Lakers and their run to three straight NBA Finals and winning of back to back championships. From Pau's brilliance on the court to his partnership with Kobe to his playoff performances in the 2009 and 2010 season, the guys share their favorite memories of one of their favorite Lakers.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you think about the Laker team now? |
| 0:03.4 | You follow the box scores of the games every day? |
| 0:06.0 | Just the Lakers. |
| 0:07.3 | You're kidding. |
| 0:08.6 | That is really a compliment. |
| 0:12.8 | I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show |
| 0:15.5 | because once the game starts, you have a game face. |
| 0:17.8 | You don't smile much out there. |
| 0:20.4 | I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. |
| 0:22.9 | Correct. |
| 0:23.5 | What's up, Laker fans? |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. |
| 0:29.6 | And today we're going to zoom out of the current season because Paul Gasol retired from basketball today. |
| 0:37.2 | And I was so glad that immediately after the Lakers and Jeannie Bus wrote a wonderful message to this point, that we're going to be retiring his jersey. |
| 0:46.1 | In some ways, it feels like an end of an era for me, his retirement. |
| 0:51.2 | Before we talk about him as a player, though, Mike, your first few years with the team |
| 0:55.7 | overlapped with Powell. And when you look back on his career and those times and those years |
| 1:01.6 | together, what do you think of when you think back on those days? Well, as a person, he's one of my |
| 1:07.0 | handful of favorite players ever that I've ever been around. And I'm not the only one, |
| 1:11.8 | which is, which kind of goes to show you what kind of a guy he is and what kind of guy he |
| 1:16.4 | always is, right? Every day. Super consistent in his personality, super consistent in his |
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