Andrei Kirilenko News

Once upon a time there was a wizened old Master, Master Hornacek. He was patient and skilled master who had moved from the hard desert lands where he gained a lot of notoriety towards the eastern lands.

Eleven years ago, after spending six years at another radio station, I helped launch new sports-talk programming in Salt Lake City that came to be known as 1280 The Zone.

Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward is a gamer. He's also allowed to talk about it and not be vilified like Andrei Kirilenko was.

Point guard Deron Williams has already declared his intentions to opt out of the final year of his contract and become a free agent this summer, but he has yet to decide anything beyond that.

I have been writing a few pieces on the Utah Jazz and their relationship with the three point line.

In an interview with Russia's top basketball writer , Andrei Kirilenko admitted what has been rumored for two weeks: that the Nets along with the Jazz are his "top priorities" as he approaches free agency and a decision whether to return to the NBA or rejoin CSKA Moscow.

Wow, that sounds like a boring title. Well, this may or may not be a boring subject.

Russia's prominent basketball player Andrei Kirilenko, known by journalists and fans as AK-47, dreams of an Olympic gold.

Williams and wife Amy posted pictures of themselves at Red Square as the offseason's most intriguing vacation continued in Russia, home of billionaire Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov.

The Utah Jazz started off as the New Orleans Jazz. Their first season was in 1974-1975. Since then they've spent decades getting better and better.

Because Deron Williams is such a busy guy and because he is such an important piece in the Nets franchise, we will be providing updates about him whenever possible leading up to July when he chooses his next team .

Olympiacos Piraeus staged a magnificent fourth-quarter fightback to win their second title in Europe's premier club basketball competition with a dramatic 62-61 victory over favourites CSKA Moscow in Istanbul on Sunday.

Olympiacos Piraeus staged a magnificent fourth-quarter fightback to win their second title in Europe's premier club basketball competition with a dramatic 62-61 victory over favourites CSKA Moscow in Istanbul on Sunday.

No further word on whether Deron Williams will travel to Moscow after the Euroleague Final Four ends Sunday in Istanbul or whether he will be joining up with Andrei Kirilenko if there, as Kirilenko's wife blogged Friday morning.

A haul of six points in the last two minutes for CSKA Moscow's Alexey Shved gave the Russian team a 66-64 Euroleague semifinal comeback win over reigning champion Panathinaikos on Friday.

This snuck up on me, and I'm guessing it might have snuck up on you, too -- five years can go by quickly when everybody leaves, sells, gets traded, ex-communicated or fired! Yep, it was five years ago today, May 11, 2007, that Baron Davis spiked down that epic dunk over Utah's Andrei Kirilenko in the second round of the "We Believe" playoffs.

Deron Williams may not have decided where he is going to play next season, but he and Billy King arrived in Istanbul Thursday.

CSKA Moscow prodigy Andrei Kirilenko was delighted to let his NBA career take a back seat for a year and trade its glamour for a more rewarding yet less exhausting season back in Europe, the Russia forward said.

I was asked to talk about the Utah Jazz's short and bittersweet playoff experience with Rey at The No Look Pass .

A fiercely competitive and highly entertaining Euroleague season is headed for a fitting finale next weekend when Europe's top four basketball teams lock horns for the title in Istanbul's imposing Sinan Erdem Arena.