After powering Spain to the EuroBasket championship this summer, the plan is to ease Pau Gasol back into action.
“The level of me playing with contact through the training camp is going to be limited because I like to stay fresh and not accumulate more fatigue,” Gasol said. "(It’s) just monitoring closely how I feel and how things are going and try to be smart about it but also ready to go by the beginning of the season.”
After averaging 34.4 minutes per game last season, Gasol expects to spend less time on the court in 2015-16.
“We’ll see how the season goes,” he said. “Ideally, I’ll play less than I did last year. That’s kind of the plan I guess."