The spiky blonde hair didn't do it, nor did the "Here Comes Trouble" T-shirt he wore. Even the jewel-spangled All-Star ring he carried proudly didn't betray how special this weekend is to Andrei Kirilenko. What gave it away was his face: the bony, angular, goofily earnest grin that the Jazz's 22-year-old forward could not suppress during Friday's gantlet of one media session after another, a mandatory ritual widely considered grim drudgery by weary veterans. "Everybody is happy," Kirilenko declared, and it wasn't difficult to see he meant himself most of all. While he tried to play it cool, tried to share the credit and deflect the praise, that piano-key grin kept billboarding his true feelings: Woo-hoo, I'm an All-Star! http://www2.sltrib.com/jazz/main/index.asp Good article, and later on in their it has Andrei saying he wants to say in Utah which is good to hear from a Utah standpoint. There's some other notes about what he said in the interviews, and they're a good read and the end of the article.
