A slim, strong and skilled Marc Gasol is great for the NBA. It’s great for the Memphis Grizzlies and it may be great for the MVP front runners bank account.
As always with the NBA rules in the CBA, the team with the upper hand to keep Gasol is the team who had his services last, in this case its the Memphis Grizzlies. Gasol is averaging great numbers for the Grizz and is one of, if not the leading, MVP candidates in the NBA.
Gasol averages 20 points per game with 8.3 rebounds per game and 1.6 blocks per game, all career highs, and he is also top 15 in PER while leading his Southwest division leading Grizzlies to a 24-8 record.
Gasol’s free agency has been a hot topic for week and he said the following to Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News:
I haven’t weighed anything yet,” said Gasol, who will wait until talking with his agent, Arn Tellum, this offseason. “We’ll sit down and have a human eye-to-eye conversation. We’ll see what we’re looking for the next four or five years of my life with this team, different teams and my family. Whatever decision I make, it would be the best.”
Will the Lakers become one of those candidates?
“I won’t say no to anything right now,” Gasol said in an interview with Los Angeles News Group. “If it’s presented to me, I’ll think about it. If not, I won’t.”
Gasol has also been linked the the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs in the past for obvious reasons. The Lakers? Why not? They originally drafted him and then traded him to the Grizzlies for his brother, Pau Gasol. The Lakers obviously have a thing for Gasol’s.
Gasol doesn’t seem too interested in being the hottest free agent this upcoming summer. He does in fact seem like a laid back guy and takes it easy all the time.
Either way, Gasol is going to garner a ton of interest and will be sure to make a lot of teams want to empty their pocket books.
