(Los Angeles Times)Pau Gasol, who won NBA titles with Kobe Bryant and the Lakers in 2009 and 2010, will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday. “For most of my country, I think going into the NBA Basketball Hall of Fame it’s something that’s pretty extraordinary, pretty foreign too. There are other Hall of Fames and stuff: FIBA has a Hall of Fame, which is special. But at that level, the NBA Hall of Fame, it’s hard to really picture and imagine what that means, how big, how important that is. It means the world to me to be able to have such a close relationship, a family really relationship with Vanessa, Natalia, Bianka and Capri and spend time together, be a family really, to be an uncle to those girls, to be a brother to Vanessa.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 11, 2023 12:53 UTC