Andrei Kirilenko became a father (again, he already has a four-year-old) on Tuesday when his wife Masha gave birth to a baby boy. From Phil Miller's blog in the Salt Lake Tribune:As we walked down the hall, I noted how gangly his new baby is -- 8 pounds three ounces, but more than 24 inches long! So I asked him, who does the infant look like, him or his wife Masha?Awesome. He's kidding, I assume ... unless, of course, he lets Masha have her one night a year, as well...
Without missing a beat, Kirilenko cocked his head as though puzzled and said, "Mmmm -- he looks like neighbor."
As far as I'm aware, Kirilenko is the fourth NBA player I've heard of that's either had a child in the past couple of weeks or expects to have one any day: Carmelo Anthony's fiancee had a baby boy Wednesday, Gilbert Arenas is expecting a baby boy any day and Flip Murray's girlfriend (talk about swinging to the other end of the Q-rating scale) had a baby girl last week. Heck, even the D.C. Sports Bog's Dan Steinberg went on paternity leave last week.
Which begs the question: what exactly happened nine months ago that got all these sports figures so randy? By my calculations, we're talking about early June. Was it the start of the NBA Finals? Maybe all of those players (or in Dan's case, "playa") couldn't bear watching the Finals from home and opted for something a bit more, well, fun, to distract themselves.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. All these births occurred exactly 9.7 months after the 2006 Source Awards ceremony. 6 of the 10 NBA babies born this week look exactly like a baby Suge Knight.
John Amaechi's boyfriend gave birth to a really loose BM last week, too.
Posted at 8:13AM on Mar 8th 2007 by The Smurf Of Vengeance
2. Memo Okur and his wife Yeliz are expecting a baby this month too.
Posted at 8:55PM on Mar 10th 2007 by Mete