Olympics Basketball 2012: Pau Gasol Makes a Case for a Different Trade

Pau Gasol marched into London’s Olympic Stadium on Friday night hoisting his country’s flag and ferrying its expectation of a basketball podium finish on his back.

The Spaniards arrived at the global apogee of hoops tournaments with devastating cohesion, interior capaciousness and depth—even with an ACL tear sidelining Ricky Rubio and injuries limiting the explosiveness of Juan Carlos Navarro and Rudy Fernandez—that towers over every other nation in these Olympics except the United States.

Anything less than a silver medal should qualify as a disappointment for a team with a menacing, domineering frontline that would look massi...

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