After heading to Russia to escape the NBA lockout, it appears DeJuan Blair’s experiment with European pro basketball is over just a few games after it began. The team, Krasnye Krylya Samara, announced today that it has released Blair after four games, according to a report from Sportando.net.
Report: DeJuan Blair Released By Russian Pro Team After Four Games
As the team’s GM explained, “DeJuan helped us to to get to the main draw of VTB League. It was the most important goal for us for the first part of the season. We thank him for the brilliant performances he had in these games.”
And Blair seems happy with how it turned out. “My trip to Russia and the performances with the team have been great and very interesting for me. It will be an unforgettable experience. In Russia I have lived in a different culture and the girls are just incredibly beautiful. I found not only a strong team but also good friends that I will visit one day, maybe next summer.”
In other words, it may have been shortlived, but it certainly sounds like both parties are walking away happy, and that’s a welcome change from the basketball stories we’ve been following back in the United States.
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