Kobe Bryant Looking out for Pau Gasol by Suggesting Weight Loss

December 14th, 2013 by Alex Kay Leave a reply »

New Year’s is rapidly approaching and soon countless amounts of people will be striving to uphold their weight loss resolutions. It’s no surprise that Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant is attempting to get his friend and teammate, Pau Gasol, to get a head start on his diet this December.

According to Bill Paschke of the Los Angeles Times, the Black Mamba is in the midst of his weight loss regiment and hoping to sway Gasol into joining him by dropping some pounds:

I told him I thought the thing that really helped me out, I dropped some weight. I told him he should probably measure it himself, see if that's something he needs to do himself. As we get older, our metabolism slows, we quietly become a little heavy.



Bryant isn’t wrong about the quiet weight gain. Gasol’s listed weight is 275 pounds this season, up 25 from the 2012-13 campaign. However, the Spaniard told McMenamin that he’s down to 259 pounds and is playing with the best body fat percentage of his career.

Perhaps the 33-year-old needs to shed a few more pounds in order to jump-start his declining gam ...

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