A.K. shoots down conspiracy theorists
New Net Kirilenko Laughs Off Under-the-Table Money Talk
Andrei Kirilenko had a million and a half reasons to leave $7 million on the table when he exited Minnesota for Brooklyn.
And no, it had nothing to do with the ongoing conspiracy theories that Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov had made him a lucrative side deal to compensate for the moneys lost on his exit from “The Land of 10,000 Lakes”.
“[The Russian community in Brooklyn] is a huge factor,” Kirilenko stated during his initial teleconference with the local media Thursday morning. “It reminds me of playing at home [like I did in Moscow during the lockout season]. It’s a great situation. There’s about a million and a half Russians in New York.”