Los Angeles Lakers: Can They Win a Title If They Keep Forgetting Pau Gasol?

When Pau Gasol was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2008, many mixed emotions stirred in all the frustrated Laker fans across the nation.

At that point, the Lakers had lost Andrew Bynum to injury, Kwame Brown was being booed out of Staples Center and they had lost five of their last seven games. It didn’t seem like they were going to find a way to make anything happen before the trade deadline, especially when they all their options were limited.

Yet they managed to pull off this trade, if you can call it that.

Afterwards, the whole world was left to watch greatness form as the Lakers shifted the entire power balance of the league, again.

They went on to reach the NBA Finals three times in a row, winning their last two trips and they are hop...

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