Marc Gasol can see it, if he closes his eyes. He doesn’t think about it every day because his days are full. His Toronto Raptors are in the NBA final; Gasol’s life, as a player, husband and father of two, is full to bursting.
But he can see it, if he tries. Some things you don’t forget.
“I don’t think about it all the time, but it’s something that’s there,” said the 34-year-old Raptors centre, in a quiet corner of the practice facility. “You remember the five-year-old kid being carried out of the life raft. You can’t erase that.