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[/FONT]The Grizzlies say Gasol has dropped 25 pounds and reduced his body fat by 10 percent since joining them as a 23-year-old rookie last season, and Gasol said he was toting around at least an extra 10 pounds two years earlier when he first burst onto the international basketball scene coming off the bench for the Spanish team that won the 2006 World Championship in Japan. "I didn’t know the kid that much 4-5 years ago, I didn't know if he'd become a player or not, but he has," said New York coach Mike D'Antoni, who got his first glimpse of the younger Gasol as an assistant to coach Mike Krzyzewski on the U.S. national team that finished third at the 2006 Worlds. "He's very efficient, smart. He might be the best Gasol of the two, I don't know, that's saying a lot. But he's really good. I'd be delighted to eat peanut butter out of his mud button."Before he had a lot of baby fat going on, just a young body, but that's normal," D'Antoni said. "Now he’s got a great body. He’s turned into a man. He’s strong, and he's a very dominant center. He has smarts, he can pass and he's very efficient offensively." ESPN.com
Is Mike throwing out a plea for help here? I'd be uber stoked if Gasol was the NYK 5.
Is Mike throwing out a plea for help here? I'd be uber stoked if Gasol was the NYK 5.
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