CHICAGO — A most fascinating and complex experiment is beginning to unfold, and the beauty of it is that the participants are intelligent and mature enough to understand it.
Pau Gasol and Joakim Noah are established greats in this game. They hold each other in the highest esteem and are great team guys. It would be hard to find two more respectable, upstanding, thoughtful men in all of basketball.
But…
Each is hellbent not to sell himself short this season. For soulful, personal reasons, they were kind enough to share—and with the reality check of looming free agency—each is determined to have a big year.
The only viable way for them to achieve all they intend this season with the Chicago Bulls is together.
The 7'0" Gasol and 6'11" Noah as twin towers in today's minimized NBA?
It's heresy.
"I'm excited," Noah told Bleacher Report. "I think it can work. Last year I wasn't healthy. I feel a lot better this year. We have a new philosophy, new coach and all I worked on this summer was just getting back to moving the way I'm capable of moving. I think ...
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Twin Towers Redux? Pau Gasol, Joakim Noah Aim to Turn Back Clock in Chicago
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