{"id":382148,"date":"2024-04-07T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T14:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=382148"},"modified":"2024-04-07T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T14:18:24","slug":"grizzlies-retire-marc-gasols-no-33-i-cared-too-much-about-playing-the-right-way-and-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/grizzlies-retire-marc-gasols-no-33-i-cared-too-much-about-playing-the-right-way-and-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"Grizzlies retire Marc Gasol&#8217;s No. 33: &#8216;I cared too much about playing the right way and winning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Grizzlies last night retired the No. 33 jersey of Marc Gasol, the Spanish big man who was a key player of the &#8216;Grit and Grind&#8217; era,<\/p>\n<p>After the ceremony Gasol addressed the crowd to thank everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank everyone, starting with my former coaches and teammates. Excuse me if I was a pain in the ass at times, the reality is that I cared too much about playing &#8216;the right way&#8217; and winning. In this week spent in Memphis together with my family I saw again so many familiar faces, old friends, the love we received from everyone we will always carry with us. Thank you, this really means the world to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Spanish center thanked his longtime &#8216;Grit and Grind&#8217; teammates- Zach Randolph, Tony Allen, and Mike Conley-, explaining how the habits and memories of their time together were also important in the NBA title he won with the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Gasol played 11 seasons with the Grizzlies, from 2008 to 2019, winning a Defensive Player of the Year award, a first-team All-NBA honor, and was a 3-time All-Star.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">how it finished&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThankYouMarc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThankYouMarc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r8mecTCXF1\">https:\/\/t.co\/r8mecTCXF1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VbBp6nFtSm\">pic.twitter.com\/VbBp6nFtSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memgrizz\/status\/1776821391976714527?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd72\ud83d\udc3b <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nBQp8kZbuQ\">pic.twitter.com\/nBQp8kZbuQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memgrizz\/status\/1776816368190447740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">a message from #33 \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udd0a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6YNuGnUBG\">pic.twitter.com\/N6YNuGnUBG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Memphis Grizzlies (@memgrizz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/memgrizz\/status\/1776825348660818403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gasol played 11 seasons with the Grizzlies, from 2008 to 2019, winning a Defensive Player of the Year award, a first-team All-NBA honor, and was a 3-time All-Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":382147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-382148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/marc-gasol-grizzlies-jersey.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382148"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=382148"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=382148"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=382148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}