The Los Angeles Lakers have announced that they will be recalling the number 16 jersey that Spanish center Pau Gasol wore on March 7, 2023 during an NBA regular-round game against the Memphis Grizzlies, who previously wore the giant player’s colors.

“Champion, legend and part of the Lakers family forever,” the Californian team said in their official account. On March 7, 2023, we will raise the Pau Gasol jersey to the ceiling.

Bowe, 42, wore the Lakers’ colors from 2008 to 2014 and won two championships with him in 2009 and 2010, along with late star Kobe Bryant. With the Lakers, he was selected to the All Star Team three times (between 2009 and 2011).

He became the eleventh player to retire from a Lakers jersey after Elgin Baylor (22), Jerry West (44), Wilt Chamberlain (13), Gayle Goodrich (5), Magic Johnson (32), Jamal Wilks (52), Kareem Abdul – Jabbar (33), James Worthy (42), Shaquille O’Neal (34) and Kobe Bryant (8, 24).

He will also become the seventh European player to receive this award in the NBA, after Croat Drazen Petrovic (Nets, posthumously), Serbs Predrag Stojkovic and Vladi Devac (Kings), Lithuanian Zedronas Ilguskas (Cavaliers), Frenchman Tony Parker ( Spurs) and Hermann Dirk Nowitzki (Mavericks).

Gasol started his career with Barcelona, ​​then started his American League career in 2001 with Memphis before moving to the Lakers in 2008, and has also worn the colors of the Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs and the Milwaukee Bucks.