Courtesy the awesome Dejan Body (Where does he get those wonderful clips?), below the break runs an incredible blast from the past in a compilation of clips from the 2000 ACB finals featuring a 19-year-old named Pau Gasol, then in his second year with the big club.
Gasol’s FC Barcelona, which also included the just-about 20-year-old Juan Carlos Navarro, ultimately fell to Aleksandar Đorđević and Alberto Angulo’s Real Madrid in five games.
(Has it really been that long…?)
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Geez I forgot how hairy Roberto Denuos was!
Pau was real skinny back them, but with that long arm span and athleticism, what a prospect he was.
Surely one of the most physically gifted European basketballers of all time (I’m Australian so there is no bias)
[...] 9. Flashback: Pau Gasol of FC Barcelona A proverbial blast from the past, this compilation of clips from the 2000 ACB Finals provided a scintillating of the greatest burgeoning talent to be exported from Spain last decade. [...]
[...] 9. Flashback: Pau Gasol of FC Barcelona A proverbial blast from the past, this compilation of clips from the 2000 ACB Finals provided a scintillating of the greatest burgeoning talent to be exported from Spain last decade. [...]