Dan Sorenson writes about the classy and funny Andrei Kirilenko.

Looking at Andrei Kirilenko on the basketball court, you would never know he is actually an animated and expressive man, driven by strong emotion. He has a deadpan, watchful expression, his deep-set eyes staring hard at Jerry Sloan to decipher his often highly idiomatic instructions. He doesn?t make faces or pump his fists or play to the crowd. He?s doesn?t showboat. When he is called for a questionable foul, he does not whine or smirk or shake his head or slam the ball to the floor.

When, for example, he is called for his sixth foul against the Knicks ? tangled up with Allan Houston driving for the basket ? Kirilenko?s facial expression translates into something like, ?Mr.Referee, your call is a puzzlement.?