His Toronto Raptors are in the NBA final; Gasol’s life, as a player, husband and father of two, is full to bursting. “I don’t think about it all the time, but it’s something that’s there,” said the 34-year-old Raptors centre, in a quiet corner of the practice facility. “I don’t play for show, I’m not into social media, I don’t enjoy that. They had been targeted by anti-refugee, anti-immigrant populist European governments; Gasol wanted to see what Open Arms did up close, to understand. Gasol was in the rescue skiff as a crew member, Savvas Kourepinis, pulled Josefa from the water.

Source: thestar May 28, 2019 00:56 UTC