The Partnership Of Pau-00-4232

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In L. A. Pau Gasol has been to concerts at the El Rey, the Orpheum and Largo; musicals at the Pantages; and operas at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, after which he reviews the performance backstage with tenor, friend and countryman Plácido Domingo. Gasol prefers to watch documentaries and independent movies. He attends matches featuring another friend and countryman, Rafael Nadal. Gasol lives in Redondo Beach, across the street from the shoreline, where he takes in the sunset when he feels his mind becoming too crowded. " I like gorgeous things, " he says, which is the cause why he fell for basketball in the first place, at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, when the Magic-led Dream Team was in his hometown, giving its hoops recitals at Palau Sant Jordi.

Gasol flashed back to those halcyon days earlier this month, from behind the wheel of his black Porsche Cayenne, tinted windows rolled down, renowned tangle of brown curls visible to the passengers outside. He was navigating L. A. Surface streets at rush hour, an art in itself, on his way to Children's Hospital in Hollywood. The one-hour hospital visit is a general stop ...
... for athletes, but Gasol contributes more than photo ops and autographs. At Children's Hospital he met with doctors in a group discussion room, quizzing them regarding their treatment of patients with scoliosis, asking how they ensure that their procedures do not stunt lung development. " We all looked at each other like, How does he know this stuff? " says Dr. David Skaggs, chief of orthopedic surgery. Next month Gasol is scheduled to sit in on a spinal surgery with Skaggs, dressed in scrubs. " We talk to him now closely like he is a surgical colleague, " Skaggs says.

The goals Gasol set when he was 11 have evidently been revised but not forgotten. He has an official partnership with Children's Hospital and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, and he is a Spanish ambassador to UNICEF, specializing in AIDS amidst children, a position that has taken him to South Africa and Angola. " I wasn't competent to become a doctor like I planned," Gasol says. "So I attempt to make a great impact in other ways. "in

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