Who is David Pick and how reliable is his info? There was no official announcement by the Russian club about Alexei's salary, and all the Russian sources I saw mentioning the $3m per year plus the income tax gross-up refer refer back as the source to some suspect site eurohoops.net written in atrocious English.

Shved himself in an interview said he had similar offers from 5 NBA teams, not just the Knicks. But decided to play in Russia to compete for "titles".