Andrei Kirilenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Andrei Kirilenko

Russian basketball player

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1981

Place of Birth: Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic

Profession: basketball player

Nationality: United States, Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Andrei Kirilenko

  • Andrei Gennadyevich Kirilenko (Russian: ?????? ??????????? ?????????; born February 18, 1981) is a Russian basketball executive and retired professional basketball player, currently the commissioner of the Russian Basketball Federation. At age fifteen, Kirilenko began playing professional basketball in the Russian Basketball Super League.
  • He spent three years with CSKA Moscow from 1998 to 2001, winning the Russian league MVP award in 2000.
  • In 2001, Kirilenko joined the Utah Jazz, who drafted him twenty-fourth overall in 1999.
  • He became the first Russian player selected in the first round of a draft and the youngest European player drafted.
  • He made the NBA All-Rookie First Team after his first season, was an NBA All-Defensive Team pick three times and played in the 2004 All-Star Game.
  • During the 2011 NBA lockout, Kirilenko spent another year with CSKA Moscow, leading them to the 2012 EuroLeague Final.
  • The same year, he was named the competition's Most Valuable Player, earned an All-EuroLeague first team selection and won the EuroLeague Best Defender award.Since the 2000 Summer Olympics, Kirilenko has been a regular member of the Russian national team.
  • With Russia, he won the EuroBasket title in 2007, earning MVP honors in the process.
  • In 2011, he won his second EuroBasket medal, this time the bronze.
  • He was selected to the All-Tournament Team on both occasions.
  • Kirilenko was named FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year twice, and won a Euroscar Player of the Year award in 2012. Kirilenko is nicknamed "AK-47", in reference to both his initials, the jersey number he wore, and the AK-47 rifle.
  • Coincidentally, Kirilenko was born in the city of Izhevsk, in the former Soviet Union (now in Russia), where the weapon was first manufactured.
  • In January 2011, he became an U.S.
  • citizen.

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