Now it feels like the end of an era.
After so many exit doors being propped open without Pau Gasol actually stepping through to depart the Los Angeles Lakers, the sweet-hearted soul tough enough to win two NBA titles is finally gone.
Gasol officially left the Lakers on his own Saturday, committing to a free-agent deal with the Chicago Bulls in his quest to win again.
The kids at the Children's Hospital of Chicago are about to make a new, good friend.
It concludes a saga of nearly being traded over and over that would've fried lesser men's brains. (Exhibit A: Lamar Odom.)
And although for many Lakers fans Gasol's departure hurts even more than when Dwight Howard left for nothing a year ago, kudos to Gasol for turning down the Lakers' hefty short-term money and moving on.
It has been beyond time for the two sides to part, and Gasol's lack of respect for the soft backbones of Mike Brown and Mike D'Antoni should be obvious in how his free-agent finalists are guided by the NBA's two best coaches, both with hard-driving styles that on the surface might seem threatening to Gasol's ...
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