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Marc Gasol
Marc Gasol Sáez is a Spanish former professional basketball player who is the president of Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB. The center is a two-time All-NBA Team member and a three-time NBA All-Star. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2013, and won an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019.
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2026· 17 entries
“Elvis gets to meet Winston Churchill as former Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp picks his 10 fantasy dinner guests”
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“White House Usher: Stories from the Inside”
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Mshale: Lakers Forward Pau Gasol On Andrew Bynum Getting Benched Wnba Games Today (L6JKyMhyhs)
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PFSN: ‘Unconditional and Eternal Love’ – Pau Gasol Posts Heartwarming Tribute to Kobe Bryant on Late Lakers Legend’s 48th Birthday
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ACB: Estad. Avanzada Marc Gasol
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Blog de Basket: Los 10 mejores ala-pivots de la historia de la NBA: del dominio de Duncan a la leyenda de Pau Gasol
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Mshale: Kobe Bryant Speaking About The Lakers' Players-Only Meeting About Pau Gasol Bono (h6yF3gw7j7)
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ACB: Temporada Marc Gasol
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ACB: Partidos Marc Gasol
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Basketball Forever: Pau Gasol Retires, Lakers Will Hang His Jersey
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Mshale: Kobe Bryant 61 Points At Madison Square Garden Pau Gasol | Lakers Vs Knicks | Feb 2, 2009 FULL GAME Mets Vs Diamondbacks (7GWjaID3mE)
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El Nacional.cat: Marc Gasol, sobre sus inicios en el Barça: “Comencé jugando gratis en el Barça porque mi padre me lo pidió”
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Sport: Jaume Betrian explica cómo convenció a Marc Gasol y Gerard Piqué para invertir en Plesh
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El Español: Pau Gasol, 46 años: "Mis padres no querían que abandonara los estudios, así que compaginé Medicina con el baloncesto"
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El Nacional.cat: Pau Gasol y el esfuerzo de sus padres: “Mi familia lo dejó todo para ir conmigo a Memphis en 2001”
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Lecturas: Pau Gasol: “Mis padres insistieron siempre para que no dejara los estudios de lado, compaginé el baloncesto con la carrera de medicina hasta que tuve que decidir y me quedé con el baloncesto”
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2024· 4 entries
National Basketball Association: Grizzlies retire Marc Gasol's No. 33 jersey in postgame ceremony
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The Grizzlies retired his jersey number 33
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Yahoo! Sports: Marc Gasol's Memphis roots will make this Grizzlies retirement celebration hit different
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FanSided: Marc Gasol announces retirement from basketball after two-decade career
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2021· 5 entries
Gasol announced that he would play for Bàsquet Girona of the LEB Oro, the club that he founded, until the end of the 2021–22 season
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Gasol was traded back to the Memphis Grizzlies along with a 2024 second round pick in exchange for the draft rights to Wang Zhelin, saving the Lakers over $10 million in luxury-tax penalties; however, he was waived five
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Gasol had 13 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists, and 4 blocks in a Lakers 110–101 win over the Toronto Raptors
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“The US has vaccinated half its adults, the problem is the other half”
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Played for Bàsquet Girona (2021–2023).
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2020· 4 entries
Gasol signed with the Los Angeles Lakers
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Joined Los Angeles Lakers in 2020.
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“Channeling our inner Elvis with some help from the best in the business. What a night . Jamie Redknapp”
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Played for Los Angeles Lakers (2020–2021).
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2019· 6 entries
Despite only scoring 3 points, Gasol had his best game of the season with 6 rebounds and 9 assists while holding Joel Embiid scoreless for the first time in his career in a 101–96 win over the Philadelphia 76ers
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Won the FIBA World Cup with Toronto Raptors (2019).
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Gasol opted in with the Toronto Raptors by exercising his $25
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Gasol was traded to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for C
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Played for Toronto Raptors (2019–2020).
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Joined Toronto Raptors in 2019.
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2018· 2 entries
Gasol recorded his fourth career triple-double with 13 points, 12 rebounds, and 10 assists in a 109–100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers
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“David Letterman Is Properly Medicated”
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2017· 6 entries
Gasol passed 10,000 career points with 27 points in a 116–111 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers
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Recorded his third career triple-double with 18 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists in a 103–91 win over the Atlanta Hawks
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Scored a career-high 42 points in a 101–99 win over the Toronto Raptors
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“s top aide Richard Clurman in an article published by TIME on August 10, 2017. Describe Elvis Presley? He was the greatest there ever was, is, or ever will be. We did not have the airwaves he had, but he delivered what he obtained brilliantly. Let me conclude by saying that I realized during those early years that Elvis and I were creating a new sound. When I heard on the radio that he had died, I had to pull my car over to the shoulder of the road as I couldn”
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“having been so quoted in the book”
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“s December 26, 2017 edition IIU) ii) CNN interview Aug 23, 2018 It was at the Forum in LA., in 1974. We were so far up in the nose bleeds it seemed longer to get to our seats than it did for Elvis to do his set. It was an education that gig, It was the first time I had seen merchandising sold so professionally at a venue. He must have been the richest bloke on the planet,. Ozzy Osbourne, as noted by CDS on the day of Osbourne”
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2016· 1 entry
Gasol recorded his second career triple-double with 28 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists in a 110–108 double-overtime win over the New Orleans Pelicans
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2015· 3 entries
Gasol re-signed with the Grizzlies on a five-year maximum contract worth an estimated $110 million
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Won the All NBA First Team with Toronto Raptors (2015).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Sports (2015).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award (2013).
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And won an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019
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“Cosas que siempre quise contar”
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2012· 3 entries
Was named an NBA All-Star for the first time, earning a place on the Western Conference roster as a reserve for the 2012 NBA All-Star Game
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Was named Western Conference Player of the Week for games played January 16–22
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“s mother Lynn (Bomar) Harless, to George Klein on November 21, 2012 i) A double voice that alternates between a high quaver, reminiscent of Johnnie Ray at his fiercest, and a rich basso that might be smooth if it were not for its spasmodic delivery.”
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2011· 4 entries
Gasol re-signed with the Grizzlies to a four-year, $58 million contract
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Won the FIBA EuroBasket with Toronto Raptors (2011).
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“s band manager and published in elvis-history on September 12, 2011. As our Chief Investment Officer opined on the morning after the Brexit vote, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, perhaps it shouldn”
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“bodyguard, Sam Thmopson, in an article published in the Las Vegas Review Journal”
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2009· 2 entries
Won the FIBA EuroBasket with Toronto Raptors (2009).
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And 2010, as the first set of brothers to win NBA titles
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2008· 6 entries
Awarded ACB Most Valuable Player (2008).
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His draft rights were traded by the Lakers to the Memphis Grizzlies as part of a trade package that included his older brother, Pau, who was sent from the Grizzlies to the Lakers
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Was named the ACB Most Valuable Player
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Played for Memphis Grizzlies (2008–2018).
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Lausanne retired Gasol's number 33 jersey
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Joined Memphis Grizzlies in 2008.
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2007· 2 entries
“s Classical Music critic Vivien Schweitzer and published on that paper on November 10, 2007 As a child, I’d stand on a table and sing Elvis at the drop of a hat. Bryn Terfel In an interview with Rachel Corcoran, The Guardian (March 28, 2025) edition Elvis Presley transcended his being called the King of Rock and Roll, even the music he made famous, in favour of his later becoming one of the XX Century”
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“, referring to Presley's early SUN Records label recordings and their influence on the Liverpool rock and roll scene”
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2006· 4 entries
Won the FIBA World Cup with Toronto Raptors (2006).
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Joined Spain Basketball in 2006.
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Gasol was named to the Spain national team for the 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan as a replacement for NBA-draftee Fran Vázquez
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Played for CB Sant Josep (2006–2008).
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2005· 1 entry
“Whether one is an Elvis fan or not there is no doubting that no church in Grimsby or any other town, possibly, has ever seen anything like it before, the most moving and joyful service I have ever officiated at. Some people used to think rock and roll was the devil's music but Elvis was a devout Christian.”
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2004· 1 entry
Played for FC Barcelona Bàsquet (2004–2006).
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2003· 2 entries
Following a senior season in which he averaged 26 points, 13 rebounds, and six blocks per game
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Joined FC Barcelona Bàsquet in 2003.
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2001· 1 entry
Moved as a teenager with his parents to the Memphis suburb of Germantown, Tennessee, after his older brother Pau joined the Memphis Grizzlies
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1987· 1 entry
“s personal hairdresser on October 12, 1987, and as detailed in a clip from Youtube, THE KING, THE PRINCESS & ME In times of trouble, I put my faith in Elvis Presley, who represented the South”
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1985· 11 entries
Born 1985-01-29.
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“s June 30, 2025 edition, Returning to my car after buying the tickets, four huge guys came toward me down the alley. One looked familiar, then I remembered the picture my girlfriend had shown me. ‘Are you Elvis Presley?’ I asked. ‘I surely am,’ he replied. I asked for his autograph and got it. When I gave it to my girlfriend, she fainted. John Grier, for MYAJC, recalling his attending one of Elvis”
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“s Broadcasting House on April 20, 2006. Any president who wants to be a king - he should go to another country if he wants to be a king. We don”
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“s August 31, 2015 edition. I found that I could do Elvis”
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“s Otro dia perdido. Sam Phillips originally drafted Elvis to replace an absent ballad singer but, after pairing him with ambitious guitarist Scotty Moore and his upright bass-playing friend Bill Black, the music quickly veered in another direction entirely; the SUN Sessions began as an impromptu jam, the absence of drums being purely incidental given it was a small studio, but the light echo the producer used to compensate, inadvertently had an effect on Presley”
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“s online page on 12 April, 2017. My dad was riding down Sunset Boulevard on his motorcycle when suddenly, a limo pulled up next to him. The driver rolls down his window and says,”
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“s website page, on March 31, 2016. === S === Although the beachside hotels on the bay supplemented most of the older hotels, El Mirador maintained its status, primarily because of the iconic cliff divers, or clavadistas, who dived from a platform outside the hotel more than forty meters into the water below. The classic image of cliff divers in Acapulco was immortalized in popular culture worldwide by the film”
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“s 23 May 2024 edition Little Richard, he was the first one that really got to me. He and, of course, Elvis Presley. Bob Seger as noted in the Seger file, an unofficial web site about the music of Bob Seger, dated June 1999 Lou Reed, Elvis Presley and Kurt Cobain. Emmanuelle Seigner, wife of Roman Polanski and mother of Elvis Polanski, whom they named after Elvis, in an interview with VOIR”
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“s April 28, 2014 edition What”
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“August 7, 2020 edition The reasons for honouring Elvis are not sentimental but political. I don”
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“s July 1997 issue. I met Elvis in 1968 at the Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas and had a drink with him. A lady asked him for an autograph but he didn”
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1979· 1 entry
“s January 1979 edition, thus only seventeen months after Presley passed away but more than three decades BEFORE his companion of eight years Rita Moreno, wrote in her 2014 autobiography entitled”
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1974· 1 entry
“The Great American Popular Singers”
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1961· 1 entry
“s best man at his wedding and one of six pallbearers at his funeral. The album, from the 1961 movie”
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1957· 5 entries
“s Chicago radio shows, sometime in 1957. Also equally important, perhaps even more important, were Big Bill Broonzy”
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“Santa Claus Is Back in Town.”
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“s article debunking the rumor that Elvis was a racist, as published in Jet magazine”
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“$3,000 More & Elvis Presley Would Have Played Atlantic City’s Steel Pier”
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“Manuel, the Rhinestone Rembrandt”
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