[外電] Kirilenko not on trading block, yet

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Kirilenko not on trading block, yet


By Linda Hamilton
Deseret Morning News

      As unhappy as Andrei Kirilenko seemed to be with his position on the
Utah Jazz in an April interview with a Russian Web site, he has apparently
not asked to be traded.
      Not that it would be easy to trade a max-money contract like his that
calls for him to make more than $63 million over the final four years ending
with the 2010-2011 season, but when contacted this week, Kirilenko's agent,
Marc Fleisher, said his client had not asked him to think about requesting a
trade.
      Jazz senior vice president of basketball operations Kevin O'Connor,
just back from last weekend's NBA pre-draft camp in Orlando, Fla., said also
that no such request had been made by Kirilenko or his representatives.
      Fleisher and O'Connor did not seem to put a lot of stock in Kirilenko's
words printed April 27 on the Russian Web site Sport-Express, in which the
26-year-old forward complained the Jazz and coach Jerry Sloan run no plays
for him to be successful offensively and that point guard Deron Williams must
"ignore some other player in the team" in order to score himself to fulfill
his contract.
      Kirilenko's comments were made the week of his meltdown at Houston in
Game 1 of the Jazz's first playoff series since 2003. Kirilenko played better
later in that series and played well in the second series, against Golden
State, before fading in the five-game Western Conference finals series that
went only five games against San Antonio.
      After Utah's Game 5 loss, Williams mentioned that he knew "for a fact"
that some teammates want to leave the Jazz.
      Fleisher said Kirilenko's comments, printed in Sunday's Deseret Morning
News, were similar to those he's made in the past. "Obviously, some of his
issues have been widely discussed in the newspapers. I don't think I have
anything extra to add to it."
      O'Connor said he is treating it as something in the past. "Most of that
stuff was said in April. It happened over a month ago. On a Web site. I can't
tell what's right or what's wrong," he said, adding, "It's disappointing that
players would choose to talk to the press instead of keeping it in-house. We
don't really have any comment. The only thing we're going to do is keep it
in-house."
      O'Connor said he has not talked recently with Kirilenko and would not
comment on whether he plans to try and contact him.
      Kirilenko will play this summer for his Russian National Team as it
advances toward Eurobasket '07 in September in Spain. He did not play for his
national team last summer, spending part of his off-time working on his
shooting and other skills in Los Angeles. He improved to making .471 percent
of his field goals in the 2006-07 regular season after .463 the season
before, though his scoring average dropped to 8.3 points a game from 15.3 in
2005-06. He scored about nine points a game in the playoffs.


From:http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660227157,00.html




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