Report: Pau Gasol To Join Spurs On 2-Year Deal
Gasol averaged 16.5 points and 11.0 rebounds last season for the Bulls.
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Gasol averaged 16.5 points and 11.0 rebounds last season for the Bulls.
Gasol now hits the open market after choosing to leave the Bulls.
Gasol led Spain to the silver medal in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
There's too much uncertainty about the situation in Brazil to commit right now, Gasol says.
Pau Gasol may well have played his last game as a Bull.
Gasol missed the past four games with right knee swelling.
Gasol will miss Saturday's game and is targeting a return for Monday or Wednesday.
Gasol has right knee swelling and miss at least two games -- and likely more.
Gasol became just the fourth player 35 or older to record multiple triple-doubles in a season.
"We value Pau," Forman says of not trading the a movable asset off a downward-trending team.
Moving Hinrich is primarily a salary dump for the Bulls, who are over the luxury tax threshold.
The hope for the Bulls would be to get an asset back and perhaps get under the luxury tax threshold.
"If you can call it a crisis, you should say it's been a crisis all season long," Pau Gasol said. "It's just who we are."
The Bulls may be in the weirdest kind of no man's land there is in the NBA.
It's critical that Bulls management is honest with themselves as the trade deadline approaches.
Gasol is dealing witih shoulder and Achilles discomfort, while Rose's left knee is bothering him.
The Bulls have won six straight games since the turn of the calendar.
The Bulls are 11-4 when Gasol and Gibson start together.
"It's just a cake of melted cheese," Gasol explains.
"If it doesn't hurt, then we have a problem that might not be correctable," Pau Gasol says.
Mirotic recently was moved to the second unit after being a starter.
Gasol figures to get more guaranteed money if he becomes a free agent in summer 2016.
"My personality fit in perfectly with his," Gasol says of Bryant, who will retire at season's end.
Will Nikola Mirotic start at power forward for the Bulls? Signs are pointing that way.
Gasol had 27 points and nine rebounds.