Marc Gasol was a somewhat surprising addition to the Toronto Raptors at the NBA trade deadline, but the big man is excited to get started.
Gasol credited Raptors president Masai Ujiri and some of his new teammates for raising his excitement level about playing in Toronto with the possibility of a championship on offer.
Marc Gasol, who just spoke to the media in NYC: "Once Masai called and I talked to some of the guys in (the locker room), everybody said the same thing about making a run to the title, and that gets your juices going and makes you real excited."
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) February 9, 2019
Gasol ultimately had expected to be traded somewhere else, so the move to Toronto came as something of a late surprise. He’s moved from a 22-34 team in Memphis to a 40-win Raptors team that sits second in the East, so it’s pretty easy for him to find such a trade revitalizing and exciting.
