Pau Gasol Traded
March 10, 2012 by staff · Comments Off on Pau Gasol Traded
Pau Gasol Traded, Reporting from Minneapolis — The trade rumors kept mixing around Pau Gasol, who became a trending topic Friday on Twitter after a basketball author erroneously reported the Lakers were trading him.
As of Friday, though, the Lakers weren’t expecting to move Gasol before Thursday’s trade deadline, according to a person familiar with the situation. They’ve wanted a young star in return and haven’t heard anything to their liking.
That could change over the next several days, though that was definitely Gasol in a Lakers uniform against the Minnesota Timberwolves, scoring 12 points and taking 11 rebounds in the Lakers’ 105-102 victory Friday.
“People already assumed that I was basically gone,” said Gasol, who even heard from well-wishers on his Twitter account. “There was some ‘Thank you for your services’ and ‘Good luck’ and all that.”