Pau Gasol Addreses Latest Trade Rumors

There was a lot of buzz on Friday that the Los Angeles Lakers would be announcing that Pau Gasol, power forward for the Lakers, would be traded.

Reports of Gasol’s imminent departure from the Lakers turned out to be a bit exaggerated, however. According to a report by ESPN, Gasol said that he hadn’t heard anything from Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak about a trade. So, as he did with the last trade rumor (and the one before that), Gasol is shrugging the latest speculation off.

“I said to myself: ‘If anything serious was about to happen, I would get a call from a significant person,’ and I didn’t get that,” he said. “And I also said to myself that anybody can start out rumors. They start out small and then they come out big. With me it’s been like that several times this season.

“I can’t control certain things. I’m just going to continue to do my job as best as I can this season,” Gasol added. “Obviously, the less I hear about it the better. But March 15 is around the corner, so one way or another I’ll be here or I’ll be, who knows?”

Gasol’s future with the Lakers is far from being set in stone at the moment, but the team said on Friday that it currently has no plans to move Gasol before the trade deadline on March 15. That could change, of course, but at least for now it’s looking like Gasol will be sticking around.

via ESPN