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By By Mark Adams

Monday, October 14, 2002

If you're going to carry a team, a city and an entire country on your shoulders, you'll have to do a few lat pulls. Which is why, three weeks after he was handed the NBA's Rookie of the Year trophy, we find Pau Gasol kicking back in the lobby outside the fitness center of his hometown's swankiest hotel, the Juan Carlos I. He's not actually working out this afternoon, he's just sorta used to being here. Barcelona is the kind of place where people meet for tapas around 10 p.m. to discuss where th ...

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