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January 24, 2013 By Martin Knezevic

Many (including myself) hope that Pau Gasol gets traded from the Lakers very soon. According to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, Gasol is privately expecting it to happen himself.

That’s not really saying much. If Pau didn’t expect to be dealt, I’d worry he might have brain damage from that concussion he received against Denver recently.

The Spanish seven-footer was halfway to Houston a year ago in the Chris Paul debacle. Today, he’s halfway out of the rotation under head coach Mike D’ Antoni. Gasol has been waived from pretty much every fantasy team from here to Atlanta (see Rick Kamla). If he wasn’t such a good cook, he’d have been kicked off eHarmony too.

I personally hope a trade happens soon, so that the every-so-romantic Pau can enjoy his Valentine’s Day. While many think the Lakers should move him for a‘big’ that fits D’Antoni’s system like Stoudemire or Bargnani, I think the team should go young and small.

季前奪冠聲浪喊得震天價響的洛杉磯湖人，如今不僅戰績一蹋糊塗，更傳出前場大將蓋索 (Pau Gasol) 有意提前走人的勁爆消息。雅虎體育記者沃納羅斯基 (Adrian Wojnarowsk) 就爆料，蓋索對於總教練狄安東尼 (Mike D'  Antoni) 的體系頗有微詞，他不想繼續留在湖人，而是希望球隊在交易截止日前將其交易出去。

由於前教頭布朗 (Mike Brown) 僅帶了五場比賽便遭汰除，高層趕緊聘來狄安東尼，希望藉由他的運籌帷幄幫助湖人速返正軌。然而，「跑轟大師」強調速度與機遇戰之體系，和習慣在內線摧毀對手的蓋索並不相投，加上霍華 (Dwight Howard) 也需要籃下空間，年齡偏高且商業價值較低的蓋索遂被晾在一旁，甚至在季中淪為替補角色。

 「湖人放棄傑克森選擇狄安東尼，讓蓋索和霍華皆無用武之地，簡單的說，湖人就是放棄了他們的雙塔優勢。」一名聯盟資深人士如此說道。

公開接受記者採訪時，蓋索直接表示自己並不快樂，這名西班牙當家在上季場均仍可貢獻17.4分10.4籃板外加3.7次助攻，狀態顯然還十分優異；然而正式執掌湖人後，狄安東尼不只對蓋索的移位和運動能力多加批評，甚至因體系要求將其貶至替補，零總的一切，都讓西班牙人顯得非常不滿。

狄安東尼入主初期，蓋索即多次向教練表達自己的盲點與困難，但眼見情況無法改善，甚至遭受枯坐板凳這種奇恥大辱，西班牙人已是心灰意冷，並希望能盡快被湖人交易出去。再者，聯盟將在下季執行超級豪華稅，以蓋索目前高薪低能的狀態，勢必無法得到球隊續留；況且神塔仍具主將身手，他若在明年選擇離隊，湖人恐將一無所獲，後續的交易與操作可謂是勢在必行。根據最新消息，包括暴龍、灰狼等隊都已向湖人開出報價，蓋索最後情歸何處，目前看來還有得瞧。