Hooped Up

Before Kobe Bryant, Shawn Marion and Andrei Kirilenko made it popular to have your organization completely ignore your public trade demand, there was Pau Gasol. Gasol is still in Memphis, where he doesn’t really want to be so long as the Grizzlies keep losing. But he won’t ask for a trade again, because he knows where that got him last year. Nowhere. Memphis tried to move Gasol near the trade deadline last February, but got greedy in its attempt to raid the Chicago Bulls of nearly every talented piece they had, most notably Luol Deng. A year later, Gasol has his name tossed in trade rumors after almost every Grizzlies loss.

Washington Post