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Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Washington" - "Phoenix" - 87:103, "New York" - "Houston" - 104:98, "Miami" - "Atlanta" - 95:79, "Milwaukee" - " Minnesota - 83:90, Oklahoma City - New Jersey - 94:85, New Orleans - Philadelphia - 101:86, Clippers - Portland -- 88:113.
Utah's Russian player Andrei Kirilenko may need surgery on his injured leg. As X-rays showed, the source of Kirilenko’s pain is a small fragment of bone. It was planned that the Russian would be removed after the end of the season. The player has already missed several matches of the regular season due to this injury, and painkillers are not helping.
Meanwhile, one of the leaders of the Atlantic Division, Atlanta, set an anti-record for the club: its basketball players scored only 27 points in the first half of the match. Moreover, more than 13 minutes. the team was unable to score a single point from the game, making 13 unsuccessful shots and ten turnovers.
"Spartak-Primorye" has been reanimated
The Spartak-Primorye basketball club, which previously announced its withdrawal from the Russian championship due to financial difficulties, has found an opportunity to continue playing. The costs of maintaining the team were covered by some unnamed private investors. At the same time, the team lost its head coach. Sergei Babkov resigned with a mysterious wording: “My departure may help save the club.” “The players, under the leadership of Mikhail Mikhailov, are training in Vladivostok in full force,” reports the club’s official website.
Titov complains about his club
Former Spartak captain Yegor Titov, now playing for Khimki near Moscow, filed a complaint against his club with the Dispute Resolution Chamber of the Russian Football Union. The midfielder intends to demand payment of a bonus of 800 thousand euros, which he was entitled to under his contract for the fact that Khimki retained its place in the Premier League at the end of the last championship. In addition, the club management suggested that Titov reduce his salary. According to the player himself, he had already agreed to half the salary, but Khimki was not satisfied with this.
Not long ago, Khimki parted ways with a number of highly paid players and re-signed contracts with other players. The budget of the Moscow region club, which almost ceased to exist at the end of last year, now amounts to 350 million rubles. For now, the RFU Dispute Resolution Chamber has postponed consideration of the case until Yegor Titov, who is now with the team at a training camp in Turkey, returns to Moscow. According to the law, Titov can count on satisfaction of his demands regarding the payment of a bonus, as well as compensation in the amount of three monthly salaries and then leave for another club for free.
Zenit asks Arshavin for money
Negotiations between FC Zenit and London Arsenal on the transfer of Andrei Arshavin continue, the official website of the St. Petersburg club reports. An agreement in principle has been reached between the clubs on the player's transfer. At the moment, the main obstacle to the transaction was the personal demands of Andrei Arshavin. According to The Guardian, the forward, who currently earns the equivalent of £100,000 a week, does not want to sign a personal contract on worse terms and receive £80,000 a week. Arsenal are ready to offer such a salary only if Zenit reduces the transfer price.
In turn, the Russian club put forward another proposal: a possible option for reducing Arshavin’s transfer price could be the player paying compensation for the terminated 4-year contract. Since in 2006, when signing a contract with FC Zenit, the player, at his request, was paid a one-time long-term signing payment in the amount of 5 million euros, in a situation of early termination of the contract, Andrei Arshavin can return half of this amount to the club, and it will be counted as a transfer fee player value.