Where Are They Now? Part 21

Tarence Kinsey is playing for Fenerbache in Turkey, alongside former NBA players Will Solomon and Mirsad Turkcan. Kinsey averages 84 points and 52 rebounds, according to his team's website. But more importantly, here is Mirsad Turkcan's wife.



And here is Mirsad Turkcan.



This prompts a hypothetical question - would you rather be a beautiful person who could attract pretty much any member of the opposite sex that you so wished, or would you rather be regarded as ugly by pretty much everyone, only to wind up (somehow) with the most beautiful girl in the world?

Personally, I'm hoping there's some validity to the second option. Or else it's impending doom for me.


Kerry Kittles has not played since his short and not very sweet tenure for the L.A. Clippers.

Petteri Koponen has recently rejoined his finish team after completing his mandatory six month tour of duty in the army. Koponen averages 18.8 points and 3.3 assists for his team, who are called the Honka Playboys. And I think we can see why:



I guess they don't do mandatory head shaving in the Finnish army. ("Finnish" is a damn good name for an army, by the way.)


Yaroslav Korolev has 21 total points in 4 games for Dynamo Moscow. Dynamo is something of an NBA reject hostel, with other luminaries such as Robertas Javtokas, Sergei Monia, Travis Hansen, Milos Vujanic and Antonis Fotsis on hand to teach Korolev about the wonders of failure. The lesson, as always - don't draft "combo" Russian forwards in the first round. Never works.

Kevin Kruger - another former Magic guard, of whom there seems to be about 8 million - is playing for the Utah Flashers of the D-League, and ripping shit up. Kruger averages 13.3 points and 7.1 assists.

Toni Kukoc recently refused to meet George W. Bush for lunch, which is something that I'm not making up. Dino Radja, however, IS going, and I recently heard a whisper that Dino Radja came out of the closet. Confirmation of this would be welcome. Outside of this, I have no idea what he is doing. (That last sentence was intended for Kukoc, but applies to Bush too. Or even Dino Radja.)

Ibrahim Kutluay, the walking personification of the Rick Sund era in Seattle, was recently somewhat forced returned to his native Greece, where he is now playing for PAOK Salonika. Kutluay was previously playing for Fenerbache in Turkey, but if he stayed there any longer, he would have had to do some mandatory army service. So he left. And it's such a shame that bad things happen to moody people. Kutluay averages 15.2 points and about 1 assist while playing alongside a guy named Michael Jordan.

Christian Laettner is long since retired, and is running his property business with former teammate Brian Davis. He also owns D.C. United and a AAA baseball team, and once nearly bought the Grizzlies. Their website appears to no longer exist, which is a shame, because back in the day you could email Christian Laettner from there. Bugger.

Herve Lamizana played in the recently completed United Arab Emirates league season. That's all that I have to say about that.

Maciej Lampe has gotten a lot better. Playing for Khimky in Russia with Pat Burke, Clay Tucker and friends, Lampe averages 15.6 points and 8 rebounds, both team highs. He is also just 23 years old, so maybe he'll come back to the NBA one day. That'll be fun.

Magic Sean Lampley just won the Australian NBL championship with the Melbourne Tigers, averaging 14.6 points and 7.9 rebounds, both second on the team to Chris Anstey. That team, by the way, just today signed Rod Grizzard to replace Lampley.