By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
Pau Gasol talked about the loss of his “big brother” Kobe Bryant and looked back on being friends and teammates with the “Black Mamba”.
“Once you slowly get over the void and the sadness and the pain you start looking at what he has left us,” Gasol said about Bryant’s legacy in a video by the NBPA (National Basketball Players Association). “He was a guy who gave his best to whatever he did. He didn’t accept failure. He worked the hardest to be the best at what he did.”
“You can see how now – after basketball, after his career – he was sharing all those values, all that knowledge to inspire the younger generations. To share the messages of ‘be the best that you can be’. ‘Dedicate yourself to your craft’. If you are going to do something, do it to the best of your ability.”
Gasol and Kobe where teammates on the Los Angeles Lakers from 2008 to 2014. Together, the won the back-to-back championship titles of 2009 and 2010.
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