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Marc Gasol

1985 - Today

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Marc Gasol Sáez (Catalan: [ˈmaɾɡ ɡəˈzɔl], Spanish: [ˈmaɾk ɣaˈsol]; born 29 January 1985) is a Spanish former professional basketball player who is the president of Bàsquet Girona of the Liga ACB. The center is a two-time All-NBA Team member and a three-time NBA All-Star. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2013, and won an NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019. Gasol was drafted 48th overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2007 NBA draft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marc Gasol has received more than 5,714,032 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Marc Gasol is the 197th most popular basketball player (down from 125th in 2019), the 1,811th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,432nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Spanish Basketball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Marc Gasols by language

Over the past year Marc Gasol has had the most page views in the with 501,657 views, followed by Spanish (143,691), and French (34,122). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (218.80%), Bulgarian (104.17%), and Belarusian (70.33%)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, Marc Gasol ranks 197 out of 1,757Before him are Alexander Belostenny, Luis Scola, Raúl Fernández, Rick Carlisle, Tatyana Ovechkina, and Nelson Demarco. After him are Andrei Kirilenko, Kyrie Irving, Chris Mullin, Serge Ibaka, Bill Laimbeer, and Alex Hannum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1985, Marc Gasol ranks 118Before him are Park Chu-young, Maria Vorontsova, Gary Cahill, Frankie Muniz, Tina Karol, and Digão. After him are Scott Carson, Mohamed Sissoko, J Balvin, Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Svetlana Kuznetsova, and Georgios Samaras.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Marc Gasol ranks 1,811 out of 3,355Before him are Oriol Junqueras (1969), Marcelino Oreja, 1st Marquis of Oreja (1935), Fernando Verdasco (1983), Albert Celades (1975), Iñaki Williams (1994), and Valero Rivera López (1953). After him are Ramón Piñeiro López (1915), Rosendo Hernández (1922), Ismael Urzaiz (1971), Rafael Alkorta (1968), Jesús Loroño (1926), and Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1832).

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In Spain

Among basketball players born in Spain, Marc Gasol ranks 8Before him are Pablo Laso (1967), Juan Carlos Navarro (1980), Fernando Martín Espina (1962), Emiliano Rodríguez (1937), Juan Antonio San Epifanio (1959), and Ricky Rubio (1990). After him are Juan Antonio Corbalán (1954), Rudy Fernández (1985), Joan Plaza (1963), Roger Grimau (1978), Sergio Llull (1987), and Jorge Garbajosa (1977).