Rumors

Hours before his team executed a wire-to-wire annihilation in Sunday's 100-84 Game 1 playoff victory against the Portland Trail Blazers, Gasol stood in a tunnel after the team's morning shootaround and spoke of how far he's come with the franchise he anchors. "When I first got here, this team was playing in the Pyramid," Gasol told ESPN.com of the time he arrived as Pau's 16-year-old younger brother. "They're supposed to be turning that building into a Bass Pro Shops now. Can you believe it? I've been here when this team used to win 20 games, and I've been in the stands when they used to lose every game in the playoffs."

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