Kirilenko Given Woman Allowance

[thesanityannex]

Jazz Notes: Wife gives Kirilenko woman 'allowance'
By Phil Miller
The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/jazz/ci_3561131

Andrei Kirilenko has been granted restricted free agency - by his wife.
Masha Lopatova, a former Russian pop star who has been married to the Jazz forward for nearly six years, understands the temptation NBA players are faced with as they travel around the country for seven months a year. And she believes that forbidding something only makes it more tempting. That's why, she revealed in a story in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine, she allows Kirilenko an "allowance" of one night per year with another woman.
"What's forbidden is always desirable. And athletes, particularly men, are susceptible to all the things they are offered," Lopatova said before the Jazz's loss to Charlotte on Wednesday. "It's the same way raising children - If I tell my child, 'No pizza, no pizza, no pizza,' what does he want more than anything? Pizza.
"So this is the arrangement that Andrei and I have," she said, adding, in the spirit of openness, that she does not have a reciprocal agreement with her husband. "If I know about it, it's not cheating."
Kirilenko, according to the magazine story written by Salt Lake City freelance writer Chad Nielsen, has no plans to exercise his "allowance."
"Of course it was a surprise," Kirilenko said. "I'm not planning to do anything. But she said, 'If you want to do it, you can do it.' "
Lopatova said she doesn't worry about revealing something so personal, even in conservative Salt Lake City. "Me and Andrei, we're very open people. I barely have secrets. It's not like I'm one person in Salt Lake City and a different person in Moscow. My whole life is on the surface," said Lopatova, a celebrity in Russia who has a 4-year-old son, Fedor, with the Jazz veteran. "I find that people in this country are really interested in athletes and their [families], for some reason. They don't want to know what kind of books I read, but they prefer to know what kind of underwear I wear."
Now that the not-so-secret is out, Lopatova joked in the ESPN story, "Girls will be lining up outside his hotel door."

 

[thesanityannex]

Sex 'allowance' from wife is national buzz
By Phil Miller
The Salt Lake Tribune





Andrei Kirilenko and wife, Masha Lopatova, are a hot topic after her "one-woman allowance" comments.
Muddling along in their anonymous, flyover-state, sub-.500 news vacuum, the Jazz finally received some national attention Thursday. And it had nothing to do with defense, rebounding or scoring.
Well, not defense or rebounding.
Andrei Kirilenko's once-a-year "allowance" from his pop-star wife piqued the imagination of talk-show hosts, chat-room posters and yes, even some comedians. As Masha Lopatova, married to Kirilenko for nearly six years, said Wednesday night in the Delta Center, "People in this country are so interested in how athletes live - [and] they are most interested in sex, for some reason."
Her point was proven Thursday, from radio to TV to the Internet.
Kirilenko, the 25-year-old Jazz forward, reveals in the

Andrei Kirilenko (Associated Press file photo)

current issue of ESPN The Magazine that Lopatova, mindful of the presence of women who congregate around wealthy professional athletes, has granted permission for him to indulge himself, so to speak, with another woman once per season.
"If I know about it," Lopatova said Wednesday, "it's not cheating."
That philosophy was applauded, frequently in jest, in a variety of settings.
On ESPN's own "Pardon the Interruption" television show, for example, Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon asked, "Ain't Mrs. Kirilenko the coolest wife in the world or what?"
His co-host, the Post's Tony Kornheiser, agreed: "She is a Top 5 wife, all-time. In fact, she is up there right now on the Mount Rushmore of wives."
That was the consensus on the sports network's morning radio show, "Mike & Mike," too, where co-host Mike Greenberg, calling Kirilenko's allowance "the best story we've ever had," lamented that his wife doesn't share Lopatova's attitude. "I'd just like one day of guilt-free golf," Greenberg joked.
Nationally syndicated radio host Jim Rome took up the topic as well, though he doubted Lopatova's premise, that removing the thou-shalt-not prohibition from marital infidelity also would remove the temptation to stray. "It's the same way raising children," Lopatova explained Wednesday. "If I tell my child, 'No pizza, no pizza, no pizza,' what does he want more than anything? Pizza."
Argued Rome on his daytime talk show, "NBA groupies are probably like potato chips: You can't have just one. Once he breaks open that bag of groupies, he'll probably fire right through the entire bag."
Kirilenko, recovering from back spasms that kept him out of Wednesday's loss to the Bobcats, did not comment on Thursday. But his marriage was debated on message boards and by e-mail much of the day. On deadspin.com, a sports-discussion Web site, for instance, Kirilenko's wife was described as the "anti-Mrs. Doug Christie," a reference to the recently retired NBA guard and his famously devoted wife.
One post on the site also called her "the anti-Anna Benson," meaning the wife of Orioles pitcher Kris Benson who once announced that if her husband was ever unfaithful, she would sleep with each of his teammates.
Added a poster nicknamed MikeyUtah, "As a Jazz fan for almost 20 years now, it might be the funniest moment in our history." Another post lamented, "I just got punched for showing this story to my girlfriend."
Not everyone found the couple's arrangement funny or titillating, however.
More than two dozen readers e-mailed The Salt Lake Tribune with comments on the story, and while most supported the couple, three or four of them did not. As Salt Lake resident Bill Bogdan wrote, "It is accepted by anyone who has a half-clear thought that when someone sleeps with another person, he sleeps with everyone else that person has slept with. We have enough social problems in our society without giving permission to add to our already existing problems."
Reporter Phil Miller can be reached at pmiller@sltrib.com. To write a letter about the Jazz or any sports topic, send an e-mail to sportseditor@sltrib.com.

 

[Fillmoe]

id be questioning my girl if she said something like that to me.......

 

[nebs]

Is that reverse psychology? I actually think that might work with someone who's borderline thinking about straying.

But like Fillmoe said, I'd start raising my eyebrows over that.

 

[thesanityannex]

I think they just have a different mindset than most Americans.

 

[Bricklayer]

Is that reverse psychology?

It is, and that woman is crazy like a fox.

 

[Fillmoe]

thats his wife.......

 

[thesanityannex]

thats his wife.......

It must have been his stunning looks

 

[DeAtHrOw]

It must have been his stunning looks

She is not exactly a catch either

 

[kingsfan52miller]

that pass is the stupidest thing i have heard...but look at him i cant imagine him getting to many groupies

 

[thesanityannex]

...but look at him i cant imagine him getting to many groupies

In that pink shirt!!!! You must be kidding.

 

[GoGoGadget]

It is, and that woman is crazy like a fox.

Yep.

 

[nebs]

Kinda off topic... but when I see BASKETBALL players off the court, in person or in pictures like this, in their street clothes, I notice how skinny they look. Most of the time the first thing that pops into my head is.. dang he's thin. Barkley looks fat in person though.

 

[DeAtHrOw]

Remember camera adds 10 pounds...it also depends how many cameras are pointing at a player at any given time

 

[bozzwell]

...
Kirilenko, according to the magazine story written by Salt Lake City freelance writer Chad Nielsen, has no plans to exercise his "allowance."
"Of course it was a surprise," Kirilenko said. "I'm not planning to do anything. But she said, 'If you want to do it, you can do it.' "
...

I have it on good authority that Andrei actually said that if he can only have one fling a year, he will rather have none at all. Personally, I think AK is just being passive-agressive in hopes of guilt-tripping his wife into extending allowance to something more "reasonable".

 

[VF21]

Kirilenko needs to quit thinking about planning on doing anything, and needs to start thinking about what his wife may have already done.

 

[SacTownKid]

Why does anyone give a **** about this? This is stupid. Who cares!!!
It was all over the sports shows and seriously, why?

 

[kingsfan52miller]

Why does anyone give a **** about this? This is stupid. Who cares!!!
It was all over the sports shows and seriously, why?

for that reason....alot of people are interested in NBA players lives off court especially when they are strange

 

[kingkung]

She is not exactly a catch either

She looks pretty damn cute to me...

 

[kingkung]

Remember camera adds 10 pounds...it also depends how many cameras are pointing at a player at any given time

In Kirilenko's case, the camera probably causes an injury...

or walking...

or breathing...

 

[quick dog]

She looks pretty damn cute to me...

I had the same thought but a different response. It was deemed inappropriate.

 

[Fillmoe]

she just looks like an average chick to me..... nothing special

 

[thesanityannex]

she seems to have a decent personality, if you get my drift.....

 

[SLAB]

she just looks like an average chick to me..... nothing special

Standing next to Kirilenko, anyone is a beautiful model.

However, if Kirilenko wasnt in the frame, I think shed be a very average looking girl.

 

[Arco Arena]

not bad not bad.....

err....

uh yea...uhmm... =/

 

[BigWaxer]

ya if my wife said that I think I would grab a 12 pack, head to the bar and start cashing in! LOL

Actually I would boot her *** out. This the the most absurd thing I have hurd. Obviously sltrib has nothing better to do.

 

[mavsman]

Wonder what Jackie Christie thinks of all this...

 

[VF21]

^^Nice.

And people wonder why I close threads.