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Kirilenko next year?

sepanol

sepanol

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I just read some news that the turkish team Fenerbahce Ulker (where kanter and 2 turkish rookies all came from) is trying to make a move to get kirilenko for next year.

I am not sure how reliable is the news but i m curious if anyone has reliable info or strong rumor about AK's future in jazz n nba?
 
I wouldn't doubt there is some truth to it - I think you'll see this with a lot of players.

Another reason why The NBA is ****ed - it's gonna be a long lock-out.
 
I'm skeptical. Why would AK not want to rest his back and ankle and every other body part, while sitting on his semi-earned millions and kicking back? So he could garner the glory and notoriety of playing in the 8th best pro league in the world?
 
Bronco70 said:
I'm skeptical. Why would AK not want to rest his back and ankle and every other body part, while sitting on his semi-earned millions and kicking back? So he could garner the glory and notoriety of playing in the 8th best pro league in the world?
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Dont dis the Turks. They play some good basketball. A matter of fact i will not be surprised if they become the 2nd best basketball country behind the US. Had a very good world championship run only losing to the US in the finals.
 
If we draft a SF, I doubt we resign him. I also doubt he resigns with a Turkish team. If he is going to leave the NBA he is going back to Mother Russia.
 
I would greatly prefer 3 more years of AK to 3 years of Singleton. But if Biyombo/JV aren't there at 12, my preference would be to trade down. Draft Mirotic, resign AK (or whoever), and wait until Mirotic can come over.
 
NCJazz said:
Dont dis the Turks. They play some good basketball. A matter of fact i will not be surprised if they become the 2nd best basketball country behind the US. Had a very good world championship run only losing to the US in the finals.
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There are a handful of good players in Turkey, but a good nat'l team doesn't automatically translate into a good domestic league. Off the top of my head, I would guess the Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Russian leagues are all better, top to bottom, than the Turkish league. Russia... I could see AK going there to play out his autumn years.
 
billyshelby said:
I would greatly prefer 3 more years of AK to 3 years of Singleton. But if Biyombo/JV aren't there at 12, my preference would be to trade down. Draft Mirotic, resign AK (or whoever), and wait until Mirotic can come over.
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I agree, basically Singleton has no chance to be as good as even 30 year old AK defensively or offensively. Might as well stick with AK for a few more years.
 
sepanol said:
I just read some news that the turkish team Fenerbahce Ulker (where kanter and 2 turkish rookies all came from) is trying to make a move to get kirilenko for next year.

I am not sure how reliable is the news but i m curious if anyone has reliable info or strong rumor about AK's future in jazz n nba?
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This is great news. He can take his yeast infections back over the Atlantic.
 
Bronco70 said:
I'm skeptical. Why would AK not want to rest his back and ankle and every other body part, while sitting on his semi-earned millions and kicking back? So he could garner the glory and notoriety of playing in the 8th best pro league in the world?
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turkey has second best league in europe, if u think the 5 other pro leagues above turkey are some african leagues, its kind of ignorance
 
Bronco70 said:
There are a handful of good players in Turkey, but a good nat'l team doesn't automatically translate into a good domestic league. Off the top of my head, I would guess the Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Russian leagues are all better, top to bottom, than the Turkish league. Russia... I could see AK going there to play out his autumn years.
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in greek there is only olympiakos n panathinaikos, italian league is underachieving for quite a while, russian isnt that good neither, only this summer CSKA made a good move to sign Krstic.

There r 4-5 above standard teams and 2 very good teams in turkey. One of those 4-5 standard ones had iverson on their roster this year till he got injured(a major one on his knee) and had to be seperated
 
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