After the Lakers were swept by the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference Semi-Finals, a stir was caused after Pau Gasol stated a teammate disrupted his relationship with his girlfriend, and that was the root of his awful play in the post season.
Later that week Gasol's teammate Shannon Brown had this to say on his Twitter page:
The tweet gained immediate media recognition, and from there the hunt was on. Who slept with Pau Gasol's girlfriend?
Many Laker fans were outraged, if someone wasn't sleeping with his girlfriend, he would have played like someone who had a spine, and the Lakers wouldn't have been swept.
A distressed Kobe Bryant tried putting an end to the question by putting a simple poll on Facebook, the results were shocking.
"I just thought by asking the question, we could find out who slept with his girlfriend, and solve the problem from there." Kobe said Monday. "But I didn't know the result would come to this."
Minutes after posting the question, over 25,000 people responded:
The poll showed over 70% of the NBA has slept with Pau Gasol's girlfriend, including Chris Kaman, Joakim Noah, and his own brother Marc Gasol.
"Look, the guy plays like a 7 foot flower girl prancing down the lane." Said Marc Gasol minutes after the poll came out "No wonder why he freaked out and couldn't play when he found out his girl was cheating on him... the guy is a joke."
Lakers President Jerry Buss released a statement to the NBA that stated "Please do not sleep with Pau's girlfriend any more. He is a very sensitive man and can't handle outside issues very well. Pau is getting older and has that weird European look, and odds are he wont be able to find another girlfriend before he dies."
Pau tweeted briefly "I really liked her..." but then immediately deleted the tweet.
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