MILWAUKEE—Marc Gasol is a big man. That much is obvious, of course. The 34-year-old Spaniard is seven feet tall and solid, built like a walking brick. He has shed the extra pounds he carried when he was young, and now runs a charitable foundation devoted to healthy eating for young people. He remains a mountain of a man.
Marc Gasol is a big man. In the post-game tumult of Toronto’s Game 7 win over the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round — at the end of seven games of bruising combat that left still more fingernail slices on Gasol’s scarred arms — the Raptors centre celebrated for a moment and then sought out Joel Embiid.