Pau Gasol Prefers to Stay with Lakers

The NBA’s trade deadline is next Thursday. Will Pau Gasol still be with the Lakers?

“My preference would be to stay,” Gasol said Thursday. “That’s what I’ve been saying all year, though the circumstances are difficult right now for our team and nobody’s too happy. But it’s still my team and I still want to be here.”

But after so many false starts and trade rumors over the years, does he even feel wanted by the Lakers?

“I think I feel wanted. Otherwise I wouldn’t be here,” he said.

via Mike Bresnahan of the Los Angeles Times