Basketball: Kirilenko returns to CSKA
Andrei Kirilenko has signed a three-year deal to return to Russian champions CSKA Moscow after a 10-year absence.
MOSCOW:
Former National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Andrei Kirilenko has signed a three-year deal to return to Russian champions CSKA Moscow after a 10-year absence. The 30-year-old Russian became a free agent after his contract with the Utah Jazz expired at the end of last season. Meanwhile, NBA team owners and locked-out players failed to reach an agreement after a second successive round of labour talks.
Former National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Andrei Kirilenko has signed a three-year deal to return to Russian champions CSKA Moscow after a 10-year absence. The 30-year-old Russian became a free agent after his contract with the Utah Jazz expired at the end of last season. Meanwhile, NBA team owners and locked-out players failed to reach an agreement after a second successive round of labour talks.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 5th, 2011.