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Andrei Kirilenko is a free man, alteast for one night a year according to his wife. In this week's edition of ESPN the magazine. Masha Kirilenko said she allows Andrei to spend ONE night per year with another woman. Masha said she understands the temptations athletes are faced with...and said if she KNOWS about it, it's NOT cheating.
She revealed this in a story in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine.
"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."
Lopatova's "offer" has received national attention ranging from ESPN to Jim Rome.
Lopatova was called "the coolest wife in the world" by Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption." Co-host Tony Kornheiser added, "She is a Top 5 wife, all-time. In fact, she is up there right now on the Mount Rushmore of wives."
