LOS ANGELES -- Pau Gasol, the perfect complementary player to Kobe Bryant, was paid the best compliment possible by his former team: The Los Angeles Lakers retired his jersey.
"I mean life goes by pretty fast, right? In the blink of an eye, you can be a kid playing basketball in your school with your buddies, then all of a sudden, you're realizing your dream," Gasol said before the Lakers' 112-103 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday night. "But tonight, it really exceeds any dream or expectation that I've had because it means so much.