Pau Gasol is a very good NBA style player. If he puts on a few pounds of muscle he can become a dominant player, somewhere within the top 20 players in the league, and that's very good. What makes him interesting is the fact that by the time he accepted an NBA offer, and paid his Spanish team back for what he'd owe them, he made very little money this year... and did it, without any guarantees. That takes guts, when you leave millions of dollars laying on the table, not knowing if you have the skills to make the grade. He and Dirk Nowitzki of the Mavs (via Germany), are proof that European basketball is getting better all the time.
Wolf