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| Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph (photo credit not found) |
Marc Gasol has single-handedly validated the Pau Gasol trade
for the Memphis Grizzlies. Never have two brothers been traded for each other
in NBA history, and rarely have the draft rights to second-round picks been the
foundation of a trade for a franchise player before. The trade was decisively derided as the
Grizzlies giving away talent to the big-market Los Angeles Lakers, as the other
pieces to the trade were Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, and two
first round picks that each became the #28 picks in the 2008 and 2010 NBA
Drafts. Marc Gasol, meanwhile, would return to his adopted-home in Memphis
after his “college” years in his home country of Spain, and, six seasons later, will
assuredly hit free agency next summer before re-signing with the Memphis
Grizzlies.
