Lakers will retire Pau Gasol’s No. 16 jersey in March

The Los Angeles Lakers will retire big man Pau Gasol‘s No. 16 jersey on March 7, 2023, the team announced today in a press release. The Lakers will be playing host that night to the Memphis Grizzlies, the club that acquired Spain’s greatest-ever basketball player in a draft-night trade in 2001 and eventually sent him to the Lakers in 2008.