It is so perfect. Andrei Kirilenko. Utah Jazz forward from Russia who wears jersey number 47. Hence, AK-47 — his initials, his number — and the designation for the perhaps the most deadly assault rifle ever assembled, by the old Soviet Union.

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I just watched the Utah Jazz close out the Houston Rockets, with extreme prejudice (as they say in the CIA), in Game 6 of their first-round series, 113-91. And now things get difficult — very — for the Lakers. The Denver Nuggets were a test, in theory. But not in reality. They were over the […]

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