QUEBEC CITY—Marc Gasol has played in more intense and important basketball games in a compressed five-month period than he has at any time in his 34-plus years on the planet, and as he sat there watching a mundane training camp workout with the Raptors here Sunday he had one thought: “I’d love to be back out there.”
But Gasol is nothing if not smart, and he realizes there are those who have decided that it is in his best interest to ease himself into the coming NBA season — and that they should be heeded.
“I think you have to trust the medical team,” the Spanish centre said after the NBA champions went through their first training camp workout at the University of Laval.