Take this what you will, but former NBA Senior Writer at HoopsWorld, Wendell Maxey, has sent out the following Tweets regarding a possible Andrei Kirilenko to Brooklyn deal.
spoke with two contacts in russia close to andrei kirilenko. say AK to brooklyn nets deal in place. plans to sign 3-year after euroleague.
— wendell maxey (@w_maxey) May 2, 2012
kirilenko/cska moscow face panathinaikos in euroleague semi-finals on may 11, announcement to come soon after/early in the offseason.
— wendell maxey (@w_maxey) May 2, 2012
at this point, just verbal agreement in place with AK/nets. no contract in place, amount of deal on known but has been in works all season.
— wendell maxey (@w_maxey) May 2, 2012
The initial tweet was brought to our attention by a retweet from SI.com’s Sam Amick.
Take this with a grain of salt because I, probably like you, have never heard of this Wendell Maxey before. But, it does feel like a Nets-AK deal has been imminent for a while, especially given Kirilenko’s relationship with Prokhorov. (Or maybe we just assume they have a relationship, given they are both Russian.) But what I do know is, Gerald Wallace, Gerald Green and Andrei Kirilenko would make a pretty nice SG-SF rotation.
We will see what plays out.