[爆料] Utah Jazz: AK trade rumors dead for now

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SALT LAKE CITY — A proposed trade that seemed quite robust just last Friday
was dying on the vine by Tuesday night, leaving Andrei Kirilenko — who would
be in Denver by now had the rumored deal come to fruition — to wonder
Wednesday what all the fuss has been about.

AK差點被交易到金塊

AK:嘿嘿..!我最後留下了


Moreover, it allowed him to savor the reality of being the rarity he is — an
NBA player headed into his 10th season who has never played for any team
besides the one that drafted him.


AK:我將邁入我在爵士隊的第10季!!!!人家從沒轉過隊唷^^


"I like that," Kirilenko said. "You know, I'm a pretty loyal guy. I like to
play on the same team a long time."


AK:我愛死這種感覺了，你知道我是個很忠誠的傢伙，只要你們不嫌棄人家，人家就會一直
留在這裡

And he has.

If Kirilenko still is with the club when its 2010-11 regular season opens
Oct. 27 at Denver, he will join John Stockton (19 seasons), Karl Malone (18),
Mark Eaton (11), Thurl Bailey (10), Darrell Griffith (10) and Greg Ostertag
(10) as the only players to spend 10 or more seasons with the Jazz.


AK:再撐一個月，我將跟Eaton、Bailey、Stockton、Malone、Ostertag並列隊史唯一幾位
在球隊打超過10年的，嘿嘿...再讓我待一個月吧!!!

But among that group, only Stockton, Malone, Eaton and Griffith played 10 or
more consecutive seasons with the Jazz.

And only two — Stockton and Eaton — played for just one NBA organization.

Kirilenko prides himself on joining the exclusive club, calling himself "kind
of a one-team guy."


AK:我自我感覺良好~~~



Even in his native Russia, he played professionally for only two: Spartak St.
Petersburg as a youth, then Russian League power CSKA Moscow before coming to
the NBA in 2001.



AK:我在俄羅斯打球時也很忠誠唷!!!

The likelihood of Kirilenko remaining with the Jazz for now increased
exponentially early this week, when New Jersey reportedly pulled out of a
discussed four-team trade that would have sent Denver star Carmelo Anthony to
the Nets, New Jersey star Devin Harris to Charlotte, Boris Diaw of the
Bobcats to Utah, and Kirilenko and Nets first-round rookie Derrick Favors
along with two future first-round draft picks to the Nuggets.

The Associated Press and Denver Post both called the much-discussed swap
"dead" on Tuesday night, though on Wednesday, ESPN.com's Marc Stein deemed it
"dormant" while reporting "it's possible that the trade could be revived or
that the Nets will construct another multiteam offer for Anthony that the
Nuggets find more enticing."

In any event, news of the deal's apparent demise — or at least Kirilenko's
participation in it, since luxury-tax implications evidently have dissuaded
Denver from taking on his $17.82 million salary — passed with little fanfare
in the Russian forward's mind.

That there wasn't much relief on his part is a product only of the reality
that he never stressed over it anyway.

And no wonder: Kirilenko is accustomed to such rumors, like ones in past
seasons that had him going to New Jersey for Vince Carter, to Phoenix for
Shawn Marion and to Houston for Tracy McGrady.

"First of all, there's not much I can do," Kirilenko said Wednesday.
"Secondary, I don't really care what the people (are) thinking. My job is to
play basketball, and it's as simple as that."



AK:I don't care


Simplistic, too, is Kirilenko's take on all the talk.

"Until you hear something that says, 'Tomorrow you're going,' " he said, "you
can't be real sure."


AK:除非人家跟你說你明天要走路啦，不然我是不會相信那些謠言的


Until that day, then, all Kirilenko can be certain about is what he knows to
be true.

Like the fact he'll play not only small forward early this season but also
power forward, the position — because center Mehmet Okur remains sidelined
while recovering from surgery to repair an Achilles tendon tear — he was
practicing when training camp opened Tuesday.

Like the fact the strained calf muscle that caused him to miss 15
regular-season games late last season and limited him to just two token
playoff-game appearances is no longer a concern.

"I didn't feel any problems in the summertime," Kirilenko said of the calf.
"It doesn't bother me (now), so I hope it's gonna stay that way." And like
the fact Kirilenko will likely soon become the only player besides Stockton
and Malone to play 10 straight seasons under head coach Jerry Sloan.



AK:之前的傷老早就好啦~

"I don't really care about rumors," said Kirilenko, who on Friday was in
Paris when he heard about the one that supposedly had Anthony going to New
Jersey and him to Denver.

"I spoke with (Jazz general manager) Kevin (O'Connor) and Jerry (Sloan), and
they said, 'Look, we don't have any intentions,' " he added. "So, I'd rather
believe them than the rumors."


AK:我跟O'Connor和Sloan聊過，我寧願相信他們也不相信謠言!!!


There have been, after all, so many over the last decade or so. And yet here
is Kirilenko, still in the same place he started.

That, he feels, is worth pondering much more than so-far hollow talk —
 especially when the seasons come and go with almost more frequency than
scuttlebutt that never does materialize.

"I was thinking about it — it's my 10th year," Kirilenko said, "and I'm
like, 'Wow, it's been very quick.' "


AK:原來我在爵士待了10了~~~~(嘆)

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