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Pau Gasol i Sáez (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈpaw ɡəˈzɔɫ]) (born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born to Marisa Sáez and Agustí Gasol, and he spent his childhood in Spain. Gasol was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2001 NBA Draft, but his rights were traded to the Memphis Grizzlies, with whom he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He currently holds the Memphis Grizzlies franchise records for career games played, minutes played, field goals made and attempted, free throws made and attempted, offensive, defensive, and total rebounds, blocked shots, turnovers, and points. After seven seasons with the team, Gasol was traded to the Lakers on February 1, 2008. His younger brother, Marc Gasol, who was involved in that trade, is also a professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA.
Pau Gasol was born in Barcelona. He began playing basketball with his school team called Alvirne, and he eventually signed with Cornellà. When he was sixteen, he began playing for Barcelona's junior team. He also won both the 1998 Albert Schweitzer Tournament and the 1998 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship. After moving to the senior team of Barcelona, Gasol played just 25 total minutes in the Spanish ACB League 1998–99 season, and averaged 13.7 minutes per game in the ACB the next year. However, in his final season in the ACB, Gasol averaged 12.4 points and 5.8 rebounds in 24.7 minutes per game. Barcelona was victorious in the Spanish National Cup championship game in 2001, and Gasol was named Most Valuable Player. After entering the NBA Draft, Gasol was selected third overall in the first round in the 2001 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks, who traded his draft rights to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Shareef Abdur-Rahim.
Actors: Roberto Lozano Bruna (director), Roberto Lozano Bruna (producer), Roberto Lozano Bruna (producer), Roberto Lozano Bruna (writer), Pau Gasol (actor), Eduardo Tarilonte (composer), Eva Manuel (miscellaneous crew), Andoni Jaén (editor), Fernandez Ezio (actor),
Plot: During the Afrobasket celebration, Pau Gasol, the NBA player for Lakers travels up to Angola like Good Will Ambassador of UNICEF and meet Ezio a young Angolan. "Mensajero del Sur"- "Messenger from the south" is the meeting of two worlds where the struggle for the overcoming of Ezio, a young Angolan, and the commitment of Pau Gasol become great allied to conquer the problems that hurry up the people of Angola: The AIDS, the absence of education, the scarcity of infantile attention centres, etc.
Keywords: social, unicef[ ] come today
Because the medication kicked in
Beneath this big exterior
Is a heart that doesn't work
Leave me alone 'cause I'm
There's no telling what will go down
My head is on fire