Andrei Kirilenko Is (Probably) a New Daddy

Andrei Kirilenko became a father (again, he already has a four-year-old) on Tuesday when his wife Masha gave birth to a baby boy. From Phil Miller's blog in the Salt Lake Tribune:

As we walked down the hall, I noted how gangly his new baby is -- 8 pounds three ounces, but more than 24 inches long! So I asked him, who does the infant look like, him or his wife Masha?

Without missing a beat, Kirilenko cocked his head as though puzzled and said, "Mmmm -- he looks like neighbor."

Awesome. He's kidding, I assume ... unless, of course, he lets Masha have her one night a year, as well...

As far as I'm aware, Kirilenko is the fourth NBA player I've heard of that's either had a child in the past couple of weeks or expects to have one any day: Carmelo Anthony's fiancee had a baby boy Wednesday, Gilbert Arenas is expecting a baby boy any day and Flip Murray's girlfriend (talk about swinging to the other end of the Q-rating scale) had a baby girl last week. Heck, even the D.C. Sports Bog's Dan Steinberg went on paternity leave last week.

Which begs the question: what exactly happened nine months ago that got all these sports figures so randy? By my calculations, we're talking about early June. Was it the start of the NBA Finals? Maybe all of those players (or in Dan's case, "playa") couldn't bear watching the Finals from home and opted for something a bit more, well, fun, to distract themselves.