Meanwhile Marc Gasol saving migrants

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Haven't seen a thread on this yet...so Marc Gasol was vonlunteering with some Spanish NGO and ended up on the crew that saved a stranded woman in the Mediterranean

Marc Gasol saves migrant from drowning

Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol participated in the rescue of a migrant woman adrift in the Mediterranean Sea this past Sunday.

The woman from Cameroon was the survivor of a shipwreck and was clinging to a piece of wood for 48 hours.

Gasol was part of the Spanish nonprofit organization Proactiva Open Arms, whose mission is to rescue refugees and migrants trying to get to Europe from Africa and the Middle East.

"There were pieces of wood and clothes floating in the water," Gasol told The Guardian. "Then there was that woman, with her elbows resting on a wooden beam. Her eyes were lost in the void. She was weak and in shock. She had been clinging to that piece of wood with her last bit of strength and had remained that way for 48 hours. I thought of this woman, of her strength. And I felt anger."

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Frustration, anger, and helplessness. It’s unbelievable how so many vulnerable people are abandoned to their deaths at sea.
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"Frustration, anger, and helplessness," Gasol tweeted along with a picture of himself (third from right) along with other crew members as they brought the survivor aboard the rescue ship about 90 miles off the coast of Libya.

"She would have died, after a few minutes, if we had not intervened," Gasol told the newspaper. "It was too important not to tell the world. ... I could no longer remain silent"

Gasol and other members of the crew jumped into the water to recover the bodies of two other migrants. The United Nations estimates that 1,410 people have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
 

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The Gasols are good dudes lowkey. I remember when Pau was on the Lakers he did a medical mission to Ethiopia. Marc should follow his brothers footsteps and join GOAT franchise, Bron can’t be the only one on the team doing good deeds. :kbshrug:

The Gasol brothers are good people, Pau is always doing charity too

:mjgrin: How good was he when he got Fiz fired?






:mjgrin::mjgrin::mjgrin:
 

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:mjgrin: How good was he when he got Fiz fired?






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Fair point, however we at GOAT franchise in professional sports, Inc don’t give two fukks about anything outside of the Lakers unless it can help us out. Be glad the knicks got Fiz, maybe now y’all team can be worthy of representing New York City.
 
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Fair point, however we at GOAT franchise in professional sports, Inc don’t give two five about anything outside of the Lakers unless it can help us out. Be glad the knicks got Fiz, maybe now y’all team can be worthy of representing New York City.
Not even the GOAT franchise in your state :umad:
 
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