how we're here and welcome to the spotlight i'll do no event today my guest on the show is kitty lanka russia supported by the world always known around the world they were always among the best in the world but after the iron curtain fell off the soviet borders twenty years ago many russian stars started to go abroad to play in the best clubs of europe and the united states a bit later russian clubs started making big bucks and they also started hiring the best athletes in the world and sometimes retreating the russian stars so came back so stayed abroad what does it take to make a living to make a career in big sports today we have a chance to ask a person who made it both in russia and in play united states kill no one in the n.b.a. as a k forty step. and drink or lentils basketball career is a great success story he first played in russia's top league at the age of sixty but didn't stay there for long after two successful years he was drafted in the n.b.a. becoming the youngest european player in the league during the twelve years he spent with due to jazz he was one of the team's best pl